despair Quotes

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.