Stephen King 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.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don’t want to hope for anything anymore.

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.