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Quotes About Despair

All I was capable of, even deep in misery, was rhetoric and belles-lettres, it was all talk.
~ Knut Hamsun
Lord God, I feel so wretched! Lord God, I feel so wretched
~ Knut Hamsun
When it got dark I jogged along to the Town Hall--God knows how I got there--and sat on the edge of the balustrade. I tore a pocket out of my coat and took to chewing it; not with any defined object, but with dour mien and unseeing eyes, staring straight into space.
~ Knut Hamsun
I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death...
~ Kresley Cole
In other words, the square root of fuckall is fuckall.
~ Kresley Cole
If Aric lived, I had to find him. But how, when I was dying from grief? I
~ Kresley Cole
Doona bring me back to life only to destroy me once more." The
~ Kresley Cole
Wroth fell to his knees, head bowed as a guttural sound of pain erupted from his chest. At the first opportunity, he'd offered her torture, only to follow it by stealing her freedom from her. And then… A heart for a heart. She'd made his beat. Had he broken hers? He'd lost her. And he'd deserved to.
~ Kresley Cole
Courage, friends! Do not despair, for soon you will be free.
~ L. Frank Baum
The bitterest kind of heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
~ L. M. Montgomery
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak
~ John Mayer
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
~ Albert Camus
This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
~ Elie Wiesel, Night
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
~ A.M. Jenkins, Repossessed
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
~ John Donne, Holy Sonnets
Religion converts despair which destroys into resignation which submits.
~ Lady Blessington
When all hopes are lost then the desire to believe in God is our belief.
~ Het Desai
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
~ Frantz Fanon
The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.
~ Kinky Friedman
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
~ William Dunbar
There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.
~ Meghan Blistinsky
mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1.
~ Sumit Ð choudhary c2