Quotes about 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.
— Oscar Wilde
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
— Cormac McCarthy
I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.
— Jim Cymbala
There's a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, towards that lost voice across the room.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.
— Soren Kierkegaard