Quotes about Despair

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Existence, after losing her, would be hell.

Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.

he's the only person I have to love in the world. But you, Heathcliff, have no one to love you, and nobody to cry for you when you die!

You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

While I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored

And my heart aches, in hopeless pain Exhausted with repinings vain, That I shall greet them ne'er again!

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.