Quotes About Despair

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

Distress leads to dimness.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

You see, if we have no hope, we have nothing

Without hope, we are lifeless.

Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you'll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Cuando uno es repudiado por el principal objeto de su amor, es fácil que se le instale la sensación general de estar de sobra;

Qué triste es que el futuro no te dé esperanza, tan sólo miedo.

In depression, I feel I have been taken over and have lost my self entirely. Instead, a rude incumbent has slumped into my life, leaving half-eaten sardines under the sofa and stale smells in every room.

A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

Here you are again. All messed up and no place to go.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout.

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Essa angústia, prolongando-se, arriscava-se a desagregar uma sociedade, assim como pode fender um indivíduo submetido a estresses repetidos. Podia provocar um fenômeno de inadaptação, uma regressão do pensamento e da afetividade, uma multiplicação das fobias; introduzir uma dose excessiva de negatividade e desespero. JEAN DELUMEAU: HISTÓRIA DO MEDO NO OCIDENTE

He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.