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Quotes About Despair

There is a here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all your success.
~ John Steinbeck
A frightened sorrow has closed down over my heart.
~ John Steinbeck
They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.
~ John Steinbeck
Midesinin hemen üstünde bir aÄŸr? vard?, tekinsiz bir düÅŸünceyi and?ran bir endiÅŸe. Weltschmerz (Welshrats derdik eskiden), yani dünyan?n kederiydi: Bir gaz gibi yükselerek ruha nüfuz eder, umutsuzluk yayar, öyle ki, neden kaynakland???n? arar, bulamaz insan.
~ John Steinbeck
I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple.
~ John Steinbeck
The political reality Steinbeck examined in Of Mice and Men, set a "few miles south of Soledad"—Spanish for "solitude"—is the intense loneliness and anger engendered by hopelessness.
~ John Steinbeck
Sevgi yok senin içinde. Vard?, beni öldürmeye yetecek kadar.
~ John Steinbeck
YaÅŸamayan insanlara cennet umudundan nas?l söz edilebilir? Kendi ruhlar? çiÄŸnendiÄŸi, kederlere gömüldüÄŸü bir anda onlara nas?l Allah'tan söz edilebilir? Onlar?n yard?ma ihtiyac? var. Ölüme boyun eÄŸmeden önce yaÅŸamalar? gerek.
~ John Steinbeck
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
~ John Steinbeck
A frightened sorrow has closed down over my heart. I wish I were a child so I could cry. I'm too old to be afraid like this. And I've not felt such despair since a bird died in my hand by a flowing water long ago
~ John Steinbeck
You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.
~ John Steinbeck
The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts.
~ John Steinbeck
If the other tire blew, there we were, on a wet and lonesome road, having no recourse except to burst into tears and wait for death. And perhaps some kind birds might cover us with leaves.
~ John Steinbeck
He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.
~ John Williams
Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.
~ David S. Muzzey
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.
~ Unknown
Shit. Shit. Shit. He'd known he couldn't save her. He'd known he was too far away. Knowing didn't prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.
~ Unknown
These days the sun never cared to shine when people like me needed it most.
~ Unknown
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
~ Napoleon Hill
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone
~ Sara Evans