Despair Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. But upon my word I sometimes have had moments…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, what agonies…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”

— A.B. Shepherd

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to…

— William F. Lynch

“How can I be made so broken?”

— J Brian Long

“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled…

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