Despondency Quotes

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

It got to the point where I couldn't afford to borrow any more money to lose. Know what I mean? That was just before 'Frampton,' my fourth album. As we were recording it, I was very down and depressed.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I'm a pessimist.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.