Quotes about Despair

This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy, Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they are crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss