despair Quotes

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.