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Quotes About Despair

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.
~ Florence Henderson
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
~ Morrissey
I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.
~ Bill Hicks
If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
~ D.J. MacHale, The Blood
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...
~ Emil M. Cioran
Life is a pigsty.
~ Morrissey
When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?
~ Joshua Natad
I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.
~ Alex Sargeant, Sci-Fidelity
Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity
~ Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun
Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.
~ David Lucero, Big Jim
Humor is the salvation of those without hope.
~ Marty Rubin
I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.
~ Olivia Harvard, Flo
I didn't think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse." "But you're so calm, " she observed."That's usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.
~ G.A. Aiken, Supernatural
All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.
~ Terry Pratchett
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Hope sinks a world of imagination.
~ Amanda McKittrick Ros
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
~ John Milton
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
~ J. D. Salinger
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
~ Blaise Pascal
Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
~ C. S. Lewis
Life begins on the other side of despair.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre