Dead inside Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes…

— David Foster Wallace

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“This, I believe, is the manifestation of some deeper, existential, probably trite-sounding concern. That buried thing which we try to distract ourselves from and…

— David Michael Miller

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has…

— Catherine Fisher

“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

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be,…

— Stephen Fry

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest…

— Steve Almond

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes…

— Stevie Smith

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

— Sarah Addison Allen

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a…

— Neil Gaiman