Quotes about Despair

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction, and despair.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry "Why?" And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away a tear. And although he may offer no answer, although he may solve no dilemma, although the question may freeze painfully in midair, he who also was once alone, understands.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By