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Quotes about Despair

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Psalm 142:4
My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
- Psalm 143:4
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- Proverbs 11:7
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:23
Again, I saw futility under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:7
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
- Ecclesiastes 5:17
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 12:8
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Isaiah 8:21
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Isaiah 8:22
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Isaiah 15:3