Despair Quotes

“We're on an express elevator to hell, going down!”

“To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lie must I maintain? In what blood tread?”

“My future is valueless. I can't fall in love. I can't sleep at night.”

“Haiti is a prison.”

“Despair is a sin.”

“I didn't want to live and I didn't want him to live. I'd rather that we were both dead.”

“O eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death.”

“Is it in this lone room, this narrow room, / That I must work and weep, and live and die?”

“If I was a bird, I'd fly into a ceiling fan.”

“They've taken my place; they've taken my money; they've taken my mistress! What have I left?”

“Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.”

“I am a Hamlet. A midget. A loser. A mosquito.”

“I am the surest man in the world to be undone.”

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?”

“The trouble is, one can't think of a reason to get up, in the morning.”

“I have traversed this bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out.”

“Useless, useless.”

“After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased by gunboats till I was forced to return wet, cold, and starving, with every man's hand against me, I am here in despair.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”

“And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.”