Despair Quotes · Page 103

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy…

— Tanith Lee

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its…

— Karl Barth

~ Goodbyes are not the one that are painful, it's the flashbacks. ~

— Vince

Too much rouge is a sign of despair.

— Arlene Dahl

There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like…

— Ricky Schroder

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one…

— William Faulkner

“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and…

— Sandy Welch

“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith;…

— W. Scott Lineberry

“Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and…

— Linkin Park

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life…

— Jillian Medoff

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may…

— Georgette Heyer

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…

— Victor Hugo

Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate…

— Franny Billingsley

I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world…

— Ben Lerner

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to…

— Rebecca West

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

— Dean Ornish

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only…

— Elie Wiesel

Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for…

— Anonymous

Love and despair go hand in hand.

— Barry Hannah

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

— Judith Guest

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

— C. S. Lewis

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

— Chinua Achebe

You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery