Feeling of Hopelessness Quotes

Depression is inertia.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?

Sadness is a state of sin.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're losing. You're not happy. That can happen. But I try to keep them separate as much as possible.

When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

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.

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.