Despair Quotes

“I have no mouth, and I must scream.”

“For I am sick of love, and fain would be / Where love is not.”

“I have the feeling that I am poisoning the air through which I walk.”

“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”

“Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.”

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”

“Since the end of the nineteenth century, despair has been accumulating in the very heart of the twentieth-century paradise.”

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears.”

“Hope is a worm that gnaws at our hearts.”

“What a bloody awful world.”

“Despair is the greatest of our errors.”

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

“I have no wit, I have no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is shattered by every touch.”

“No day dawns for the slave, nor is it looked for. For the slave, it is all night.”

“It was the first kiss of her life to be bereft of hope.”

“We were equals, in the sense that we were all in the same sinking boat.”

“With woeful measures wan Despair, Low, sullen sounds his grief beguiled, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild.”

“Hope, wanting comfort, starved with despair.”

“I'm dying in here. I'm not getting out.”

“Woe is me.”