Quotes About Despair

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Troppo miseria

The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows them over the edge of the cliff where the earth becomes the air we turn into. It's called mirror vision when we see what isn't here. The kind of faith that fails at unexpected moments the way a climber reaches for a hold that will never in his life, be there. It's called despair when we open the door of a heart that no longer exists.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic.

Abandon all hope ye who piss me off.

I mean, there's doomed. There's screwed. And there's monsoons-in-Hell fucked. And we're at fucked o'clock.

Do you even know what death is, Tom?" I say. "It's dumb, and it's loud, and it smells bad; you're in Hell and you want to die to get away from it all, but you're already dead and there's nowhere to go. And what's worse is you know you're there because you deserve it, because you're such a fucking waste of skin and gristle. So no, I don't want to die. It's no fun and there's too many people like you there.

That's not terribly comforting, but I suppose it will have to do." "That pretty much sums up Hell.

When you're drowning in Hell, even a cement life jacket can look good.

So far, being dead is about as much fun as a barbed-wire G-string. Yes

I hope watching the Bradys depresses them as much as being trapped here in Creation's shit pipe depresses me.

Dead, lost, and with only half a pack of smokes. The dictionary definition of Hell." "Amen

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is visceral and immediately useful to many people's lives. Encouraging personal reconnection does not mean less engagement with global environmental issues; it means more. To act, most of us need motivation beyond despair.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'" He

I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It's too late, it's too late. You can't come back.

McKenna dropped to her knees, then fell to her side on the asphalt, moaning