personal despair Quotes

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.