Despair Quotes

“I that am of all creatures miserable, the most, the very scorn of my creation.”

“A man doesn't kill himself because of a single woman. He kills himself because of a love that makes him discover his nakedness, his misery, his nothingness.”

“Game over, man! Game over!”

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.”

“La belle Philis, on désespère, alors qu'on espère toujours.”

“Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins.”

“I thought that by killing him I was also destroying myself.”

“He that drinks never feels the horrors of blank despair.”

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

“O how little do they know of the Torments of a hoping, and despairing Lover, who have not experienced what it is!”

“I myself am hell; nobody's here.”

“Somehow I am no longer myself, but a dead man.”

“Hope is the act by which the temptation to despair is actively overcome.”

“The world is falling apart, and I am dying inside.”

“Despair has its own calms.”

“I shot myself for my parents' sake.”

“The world has become a slaughterhouse.”

“People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and despair. Well, they're right. But you can be a lily pad.”

“There is no love of life without despair of life.”

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.”