Quotes About Despair

And from that day on everything under the sun and moon made me sad—

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

She had been the daughter of a half-insane, mean old woman and an ineffective alcoholic father, and she had grown up poor and unwanted. She had been an unmarried welfare mother and finally become a drunk herself.

a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

I'm not there, she thought. I'm not there. I'm nowhere. She felt the world go dark with sudden exclusion and she was beating her wings against the door of the dark but no one opened the door; indeed, no one heard.

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

Juovuksissa taas, ja onko olemassa muuta kuin ikävä tyhjyydestä pois.

Love is like whoa! Actually, it's closer to woe.

Without a belief in a fair and moral universe, a sense of control of one's fate, a coherent sense of self, and a continuous personal narrative, life makes no sense. Living becomes a pointless exercise of getting through the day. People reeling from trauma are thrown into a crisis of meaning that goes far beyond disillusionment; they are plunged into an abyss of despair."18

The world is truly a terrible place. Every one of my generation is lost, filling the holes which are their lives with seditious and yet passionless acts of unnecessary drama. It is a world of hypocrisy and whispers, a dark mine shaft of overfed, spoiled, and thankless slaves too stupid to realize that, despite their steady stream of shallow luxuries, they are still slaves.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, desespera y muere.»

Cuando alguien decide matarse, no hay manera de impedirlo.

ähnlich den Stimmen der Pessimisten, die keinen Sinn im Leben sehen, aber auch keinen im Selbstmord oder im Tod, keinen Sinn darin, zu fürchten, keinen Sinn darin, zu warten, keinen Sinn darin, zu fürchten, keinen Sinn darin, zu warten, keinen Sinn darin, zu denken; und doch tun sie nichts anderes als diese drei Dinge: fürchten, warten, denken, unaufhörlich denken.

No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra la almohada y espera al día siguiente. De pronto no esperan.

No sólo la incertidumbre y la espera, también la irracional expectativa, las fantasías, se convierten en esenciales para el corazón de una persona, y ya no es capaz de renunciar a ellas. Pueden convertirse en esenciales hasta el lamento y la pena, el despecho, y le acaban conformando a uno su manera de convivir con el mundo

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, y caiga tu espada sin filo: desespera y muere.

lo que Shakespeare llamó 'una cama afligida', o 'apesadumbrada', o 'desconsolada': 'a woeful bed

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind." When you reach this point, you are one step away from despair — and one step away from enlightenment.

Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes

Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet.