Quotes About Despair

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.

To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.

Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

They never confessed that somewhere between the ambushes and booby traps and humping in the glaring sun, they lost hope. Somewhere in the blackness of the night, they lost faith. And in the end, there was nothing to separate them from the devil.

Despair made you helpless. Despair got in the way of the mission. And it never helped. It was the sin that was not so much unforgivable as totally pointless.

Despair was the unforgivable sin. And he simply couldn't go out that way – he couldn't give up. If he was out of faith, he'd just have to push through it, and carry on. He'd fake it, if he had to.

how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

Once a person gives up, it becomes surprisingly easy to die.

it would be accurate to say that despair is the most precious sickness known to man, and so there is no reason to despair…if you are suffering from 'existential despair', since this is potentially your 'ticket' to freedom.

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

You can't let pain go beyond a certain level or you start doing crazy things : you swallow some Destop Turbo and your internal organs, composed of the same substances that usually block sinks, break down amidst horrible pain: or else you throw yourself under a metro and find yourself two legs short with your balls crushed to bits, but still alive.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

All I knew was that once again I found myself alone, with even less desire to live and nothing to look forward to but aggravations.

I can't hide the truth: I will end my life unhappy, cantankerous and alone, and I will have deserved it.

No one in the West will ever be happy again, she also thought, never again; happiness today is nothing but an old dream, the past conditions for its existence are simply no longer being fulfilled.

Por mucho valor, sangre fría y humor que uno acumule a lo largo de su vida, siempre acaba con el corazón destrozado. Y entonces uno deja de reírse. A fin de cuentas ya sólo quedan la soledad, el frío y el silencio. A fin de cuentas, sólo queda la muerte.

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

In the end, my cock was all I had.

And I no longer even know where the source is; at present, everything looks the same. The landscape is more and more gentle, amiable, joyous; my skin hurts. I am at the heart of the abyss. I feel my skin again as a frontier, and the external world as a crushing weight. The impression of separation is total; from now on I am imprisoned within myself. It will not take place, the sublime fusion; the goal of life is missed. It is two in the afternoon.

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