Quotes About Despair

Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when you start to think that you kill things just by being there.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

Everyone has a rock bottom.

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

I have a suicide impulse.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Suicide is not a remedy.