Quotes About Despair

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

The weather turned to damp heat, the kind that settled on the shoulders and made people walk as if they were twenty pounds too heavy. It pointed tempers and blunted energy, and gave despair a great seductive power.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,      Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man      That wastes and withers there. Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,      And the Warder is Despair.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

The guilt of these homicides lies upon every man and woman who, intentionally or by cold indifference, helps to keep up social conditions that drive human beings to despair.

He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going spiraling off into a black tunnel. Concentrate, he told himself. Focus.

He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going, spiraling off in a black tunnel. 'Concentrate,' he told himself. 'Focus.

the ultimate despair.

The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.

People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement. The prospect of an individual career cannot stir them to a mighty effort, nor can it evoke in them faith and a single-minded dedication.

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.

But when we remember that this book was used for centuries as a how-to book for witch-hunters, we can only despair that the printing press has often been a tool of oppression as of liberation.

My real despair came because Aphrodite withdrew her favours. Aphrodite needs nothing from me. She always has new singers to celebrate her. So what if they are my students, acolytes, and imitators? So what if they learned everything they know from me? The goddess of love favours the young. She always has

Mi-am ratat întotdeauna sinuciderile. Ca s? fiu mai exact, am ratat întotdeauna totul : È™i viaÈ›a, È™i sinuciderile. Ceea ce e dureros în cazul meu e c?-mi dau seama de asta.

Bense bundan bile daha az?yd?m. Ginza'daki fareden ya da Åžincuku'daki kargadan bile daha az?. Her ÅŸeyimi kaybetmiÅŸtim - ev, statü, iÅŸ, onur, haysiyet - özgürlüÄŸümden baÅŸka her ÅŸeyi. Zaten neyin özgürlüÄŸü? Çabuk bir ölüm ya da g?d?m g?d?m felaket aras?ndaki seçim özgürlüÄŸü.

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness.

At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Anger has that peculiar quality of isolation; like sorrow, it cuts one off, and for the time being, at least, all relationship comes to an end. Anger has the temporary strength and vitality of the isolated. There is a strange despair in anger; for isolation is despair.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.