Quotes About Despair

Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart- breaking

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.

I have no hope then? the patient asks. There is no hope or change. Have I not changed? the patient asks. How could anything so empty change?

I already have no point of view except that of the fallen. I have no individuality, because I'm a deadened thing.

I have no skills; I have no hope; I don't want any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this calm.

Don't ever speak to me from ecstasy, my life is broken.

For days and nights I didn't know if I wanted to live

somebody lost out late again

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)

Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried deep Dark are my father's halls And carrion fowl and wolves now keep Their ruined walls From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh

She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair.

only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Freedom was a fantasy she gnawed obsessively in her few moments of leisure, like an old bone with just a trace of meat, and like all illusions, it left her hungrier than before, only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

a couple with a missing child, like any couple anywhere with any missing child. They have nothing.

Living without love is worse than dying, Younger." William T.

The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus

Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering violently and staring after the retreating Turks. Lawrence moved to speak with him, but Auda caught his rein and stopped him. In one blow, in one moment, Tallal had lost every person in the world who mattered to him. and the older Auda, wiser in this matter than lawrence, realized that Tallal now had nothing left to live for.

Medusa… the sight of her face turned people into stone. [Here she is] perhaps a symbol of the ultimate sin, despair, which would petrify Dante and so trap him in Hell for ever.

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

There's a pain deeper than death...

After Megan's death, Tyler spiraled downward into an abyss of steely blankness, as if Megan were the only color in his life, and without it, there was only white, black, and gray. He numbed his pain with booze, and slowly, wrenchingly, pulled away from all of us, isolating himself in an angry cocoon, where none of us could reach him and he didn't want to be reached.