Despair Quotes

“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.”

“I have a horrid presentiment of futurity.”

“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”

“There's no use trying to escape. The rats are all around us.”

“There is nothing left to do but get drunk.”

“Close every door to me, hide all the world from me.”

“Nothing is left to greet the sun.”

“The king is dead, the aliens have the land!”

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't.”

“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink.”

“The fountain of my tears, the spring of my despair.”

“The Nothing is spreading... it's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing.”

“The front is a cage in which we are trapped.”

“All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to life.”

“I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.”

“Mon Dieu, why is there a war?”

“For I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to.”

“Love has no great fervor in prison.”

“I am in my antechamber of hell.”