Despair Quotes

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals to us our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

“Pobre alma que soña... e que nunca desperta!”

“He wants to die. He has been asking to die for a month. All he does is lie there and stare at the ceiling.”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

“Despair is the only genuine unforgivable sin.”

“I was physically in the dark, I was mentally in the dark.”

“Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.”

“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“My soul is consumed by a devouring fire; I must live, I must be loved, or I must die.”

“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.”

“What a hideous life is this, when it is not a dream!”

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”

“Humour is the beginning of terror, the last resort of the doomed.”

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”

“Solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

“I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.”

“There is nothing I can say that's going to make anyone feel any better.”