411 Quotes About Hopelessness

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

Love is the refusal to see life as it is. It is the Lorelei rock upon which our noblest and proudest ships are dashed. It is worse than any medieval contagion.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. 'Snap out of it and get on with your life,' sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.