Quotes About Despair

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Then suddenly you're left all alone with your body that can't love you and your will that can't save you.

Yes, he knew that we was withdrawing from everything: not merely from human beings. A moment more and everything will have lost its meaning, and that table and the cup, and the chair to which he clings, all the near and the commonplace, will have become unintelligible, strange and heavy. So he sat there and waited until it should have happened. And defended himself no longer.

My old furniture is rotting in a barn where I was permitted to store it, and as for myself, dear God, I don't have a roof over my head and it is raining into my eyes.

I offer resistance, although I know that my heart has already been ripped out and I could not go on living even if my torturers were to leave me alone now.

What shouldn't a person be able to achieve with precisely the kind of force that is needed to dissolve the powerful, tremendous attachments of life! From that moment on I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposiite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

And I knew in spite of the anguish within me that the sun goeth down.

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.

There is a difference between tears of hope and tears of hopelessness." —Erwin Lutzer

Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see her, fierce and magical. Stop despairing and call to her, and you will see, she will come bearing a rainbow of dreams.

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

Perder la fe es espantoso porque nos despoja de la esperanza e incluso amenaza el amor.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

One day you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

Going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for dinner.