Irving Stone Quotes

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

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

The world is always terrible.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

Misery is the River of the World

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.