despair Quotes

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.