Blaise Pascal Quotes

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.