Quotes about Despair

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

There is not a single human being who does not despair at least a little, in whose innermost being there does not dwell an uneasiness, an unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety in the face of an unknown something.

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes that comes to all.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Moloch, scepter'd king, Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.