Overwhelming Sadness Quotes

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

The light has gone out of my life.

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together.

In spite of overwhelming grief and terror, I left Westboro in 2012.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break

It’s hard to absorb the horrors of the world on a daily basis.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

Sorrow can be a bully.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.