Despair Quotes · Page 27

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

— Robert Hunter

“I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this…

— Morrissey

“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

— John Geddes

“The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.”

— Victor Hugo

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

— Jack Kemp

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

— Albert Camus

“You have not seen desperation and helplessness till you have seen a man hopeless in love. Of course, unless you have seen…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

— Anne Rice

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them…

— Greg Kinnear

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado…

— Kristen Bell

“The despair was entire, complete as a possession, but fleeting. It released her, and was gone, but it left Karou gutted, guttered,…

— Laini Taylor

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For,…

— Jacques Hadamard

“Despair may torment your soul but peace can rise through the storms of life to help heal you. Never forget to maintain…

— Timothy Pina

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total…

— David Hockney

“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in…

— Walker Percy

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable…

— Anonymous

“Dreamy tosspots, they stand all afternoon in a 2nd Avenue bar looking at the sun-patterns under the L or their own faces…

— Charles Jackson

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and…

— Anne Frank

“Within days, perhaps hours, the discarded remnants of this last job would have been bleached of any trace of their origins, each…

— Barry Eisler

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth…

— Matthea Harvey

“Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote…

— Leila Aboulela

“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to…

— Dag Solstad

Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it…

— Sam Walter Foss

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

— Blaise Pascal

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Robert Frost

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

— Woody Allen

Perhaps the most distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it.

— Himura Kenshin

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

— William Butler Yeats

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

— Ernest Hemingway

“The way is full of perils and the goal far out of sight. There is no road to which there is no…

— Hafez

Friends could take me everywhere but this pain always bring me in despair

— Cath Chatto

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

— Varg Vikernes

“She saw how the skim of filth, which was despair, which was hopelessness, fell like soot on the lives of the poor.”

— Alice McDermott

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

— Amitav Ghosh

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy…

— Anonymous

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

— Jose Bergamin

For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.

— Margo Kingston