1,310 Quotes About Despair

Erica's despair has nothing to do with lack of motherly love. She loved Maja fiercely and sincerely. At the same time she felt as if she'd been invaded by an alien parasite that sucked all joy out of her and forced her into a shadow existence that had nothing in common with the life she'd lived before.

May God protect us from every calamity.

My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair - the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase

The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.

The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.