Depair Quotes

“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.”
― Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

“He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“Wisdom never requires hopelessness”
― Munia Khan

“...he knew he'd been scared there in the pit as he'd never been scared before. And it was not any one thing that scared him. It was everything. It was his life. His life terrified him. He didn't see how he was going to get through the rest of it. He was miserable beyond measure. Everything seemed to be coming apart. He could see the frayed and ragged seams of everything slowly unravelling.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes