Quotes About Despair

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Sadness is a state of sin.

It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there.

loveliness is infernally sad.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.