Catherine Fisher Quotes

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

I am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I can feel myself dying inside.