Quotes About Despair

I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Every medicine is vain.

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn't found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

The only way I'll really smile is if you cut me ear to ear.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

All that was really there was still more misery -- oh yes! as much of that as you like.

Vader wasn't a galaxy-conquering psychopath. He was a sad man whose one love in life had died, and whose one anchor to the world of the living was, yes, a galaxy-conquering madman.