Hidden Despair Quotes

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view.

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .