Quotes About Despair

And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it.

My breath is coming too hard. I want to cry. To scream. To die.

Hay mucha gente que no es feliz nunca en su vida

Volvía a preguntarme por qué no nos fusilaban a todos, por qué no nos liquidaban de una vez en lugar de matarnos tan despacio, tantas veces, tantas pequeñas muertes de hambre, de tristeza de humillación

He was a hostage of the void

Despair keeps no clocks. If you ask him the time, he will always say it is too late to complete your journey. He will tell you his is the last stop there is, anywhere. Do not trust the wily old shopkeeper. Instead, rest a while and thank him for his stories of lost glory. Then it is best to be on your way.

Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late.

Me recordaba una procesión fúnebre; estos hombre, mujeres y niños que avanzan con una mirada de muerte y derrota en sus rostros. No podía imaginarme cómo el gueto, ya sobrepoblado, podía darle cabida a una persona más.

Well, I totally understand why people take huge drugs. Like heroin, or cocaine. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own head, because being in your own head is unbearable. In fact, the reason I haven't taken drugs like that is because I know that it would be so good to be out of my own head that I wouldn't be able to stop

Ainsi, ils ont des vies de merde avec des boulots de merde, ils vivent dans des endroits horribles avec des personnes épouvantables, et ils poussent l'abjection jusqu'à appeler ça le bonheur.

Acaso te causan dolor mis fatigas, mis ansias de verte, mis quejas baldías, mi tedio implacable, mi horror por la vida.

I look into her eyes and find forgiveness there and for a moment-- one brief, sweet shining moment, I see an end to my despair.

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.