Roger Waters Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

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

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.