Despair Quotes - Page 9

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

...the heart has no tears to give,-it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.

Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

He gets up only to have a cigarette for breakfast and then crawls back in bed, head high off the carcinogens.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.