quotations about despair
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Fall of Atlantis
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
LEMONY SNICKET
The End
Dead is the new alive
Despair's the new survival
EMILIE AUTUMN
"Dead Is the New Alive"
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Heart of the Matter
There is the void known as despair
A gateway upon an emptiness endless and vast ...
I have become as the wastelands
Of unending nothingness
Now shall the night things
Fill me with their whisperings
And the shadows reveal their wisdom
NILE
"Language of the Shadows", Ithyphallic