Quotes About Despair

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

He who has never hoped can never despair

I am too tired, even to be happy.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others.

She will be your living hell.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

In modern civilization, there's three things you can do: Get a job, become a criminal, or lift your head up high and blow your brains out. Life ain't easy anymore.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

In the dark night of the soul, it is always three A.M.

O z?a Persefono, Mog?a?e? tak wielu ?zam da? up?yna? p?ono?

Hij keek even naar de drol. Het uiteinde glansde van een slijmerige bloederige afscheiding. In het stuk krant hield hij hem als een sigaar tussen zijn vingers, bracht hem halverwege naar zijn mond en keek mismoedig met treurige hondeogen naar een denkbeeldige voorbijganger. 'Hebt u een vuurtje voor me,' vroeg hij somber.

I think the absence of hope removes all empathy. Then all you want is for the rest of the world to suffer like you do.

I looked around my boat and sighed. "When the corpses outnumber the living, you know your boat has taken a hard turn in the wrong direction.

When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as 'the plan of happiness' can very quickly generate despair.