Quotes About Despair

Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them.

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Peretur tasted the despair in her words; the bone-bleaching fear of her recent life; starving, running, terrified, cold, always hunted, nowhere to rest, even-especially-from her own band.

Hope was something to be feared.

We shook our heads, like two old soldiers drinking at the veterans' hall and despairing of the youth today.

Angst was for the dark.

Promises were useless in the face of torture.

Perhaps there was no magic for faling off your own mount and dying alone and unmasked.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

Pat had a turbulent personality, a complex mixture of joy and despair, but through it all, great love.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

When something goes wrong, such as failing an exam to qualify as a doctor, a person may seem to be despairing over something that has been lost. But on closer inspection, according to Kierkegaard, it becomes obvious that the man is not really despairing of the thing (failing an exam) but of himself. The self that failed to achieve a goal has become intolerable. The man wanted to become a different self (a doctor), but he is now stuck with a failed self and in despair.

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

Despair at not reaching ideal perfection are among the reasons given. Again it is said.

But human nature is inscrutable: he was depressed at the thought of the disapproval of the very people he despised, at whose vanity and general behavior he had laughed.

Nel mio paese, la vodka non porta alcuna gioia. Porta abbruttimento, rimorso, depressione. Distrugge ogni cosa.

A person in despair likes to visit the past.

Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.

Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was to repeatedly try and fail. Failure-disappointment-was a poison in my blood. Despair was the antidote.

I was boring myself. That's the worst part of a bad date. It makes you feel like a toad, and you keep telling yourself, "I know I'm more fun than this, and I know that when I came into this café I wasn't in despair about the human condition.