Despair Quotes

“Despair has its own calm.”

— Bram Stoker

Despair young and never look back,

— Samuel

Despair is part of love.

— Andrew Solomon

Despair gives courage to a coward.

— Thomas Fuller

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

— Horace

You should despair and run away.

— Hayao Miyazaki

I am not made for despair

— Lian Hearn

Dissipation: stupidity in despair.

— Anonymous

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

— Martin Luther

There is not love of life without despair about life.

— Albert Camus

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

— Bell Hooks

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

— Nelson Mandela

“She became the bad company that she kept.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

— William Shakespeare

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

— Anonymous

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

— John Donne

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

— Francois Mauriac

“It may be safe to walk, but where do you go when all directions wear the same black ashen despair?”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.”

— Anonymous

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already…

— Amy Tan

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

— Anonymous

“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.”

— Eleanor Cameron

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

— George Santayana

“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by…

— Rudyard Kipling

“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of…

— Byron Forrest Yawn

“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of…

— Robert Charles Wilson

The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of…

— Robert Peel

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll…

— Ann Brashares

“Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a…

— Zack Love

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind…

— Diana Wynne Jones

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet…

— Kate Chopin

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long Coiled, one thousand miles deep Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy Hard…

— James O'Barr

“Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'…

— J.M. Coetzee

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills…

— Peter Straub

A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture…

— Stephen King

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to…

— Lemony Snicket

“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that…

— Francis M. Nevins