Quotes About Despair

We accept so many commitments in regard to life that a time comes when, despairing of ever managing to fulfill them all, we face the graves, we call upon death, "death, which brings help to destinies that have trouble coming true." But while death may exempt us from commitments we have made in regard to life, it cannot exempt us from our commitments to ourselves, especially the most important one: namely, the commitment to live in order to be worthy and deserving.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not what resolution from despair.

Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By

Only supreme in misery!

Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face   Thrice chang'd with pale, ire, envie and despair,   Which marrd his borrow'd visage, and betraid   Him counterfet, if any eye beheld.

Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell

Now conscience wakes despair That slumbered, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell. And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Horror y duda perturban sus confusos pensamientos y desde el fondo agitan el Infierno que su seno contiene, porque dentro de sí lleva el Infierno y a su entorno, y del Infierno no puede alejarse un solo paso, igualmente como tampoco puede de sí mismo huir aunque de lugar cambie.

Hay alguien que ame el dolor? ¿Quién, hallando un camino, no huiría del infierno aunque estuviese a él condenado?

bit is about how an intrusive suicidal ideation can show up when you least expect it, how true deep despair appears out of nowhere. That is terrifying because it feels like a killer on the loose.

The steps to degradation are only three: the actuality of the shameful condition, the recognition of the actuality while feeling unable to do anything about it, and then acceptance of it as the normal state of affairs.

You can't love here. This is Hell.

I really have nothing against rationality, or even doing what you think is best, or doing what is more likely to satisfy your desires. I have tried these strategies at various times, occasionally with good results. But I think the ideal of the rational agent is the source of lots of needless unhappiness. It's not the way many of us operate; it's certainly not the way I operate. And operating the way we do usually works just fine, and really isn't a reason to hang our heads in shame and despair.

Only thus can hope be bright that there might come a tomorrow when you, the descendants of the settlers of our lands, can say to the world, Look, we came and were welcomed, and then we wrought much despair; but we are also men of honour and integrity and we set to work in cooperation, we listened and we learned, we gave our support, and today we live in harmony with the first people of this land who now call us, brothers.

Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility.

screamed the scream of the abandoned

she will find a way to make the rest of your natural existence one of unceasing woe and misery.

The mattress on the bunk was two centimeters thick and apparently made out of particleboard and despair

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.