Susan Smith Quotes

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

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

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Pathetic

The future is kind of a bleak place.

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.