Quotes About Despair

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

Despair has its own calms.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up.