Quotes About Despair

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry, " Archer offered.

Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.