Despair Quotes · Page 40

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

— Warren Buffett

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

— Paul Sinha

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

— Olympia Dukakis

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

— Marian Keyes

“When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter,…

— Will Ferguson

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I…

— Karin Fossum

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness…

— Boyd K. Packer

It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to…

— Max Lucado

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and…

— Tim O'Brien

Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the…

— Barbara Pease

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his…

— Alfred De Musset

To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally…

— Rick Yancey

“The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you…

— Timothy Pina

“You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as…

— Rohinton Mistry

In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way…

— Muriel Barbery

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

— Arthur Helps

All the world's for living when love is what you find. Despair and loneliness, you've got to leave them far behind.

— Kansas

“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”

— Paco Ignacio Taibo II

“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be…

— Walker Percy

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 children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.”

— Alice Hoffman

“We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as…

— Martin Luther

The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.

— Corrado Alvaro

“My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.”

— Zack Love

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

— Og Mandino

Finals are coming up. Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole of despair...

— Anonymous

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

— Francis Bacon

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

— Robert Breault

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing…

— Sarah Kane

“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on…

— Thomas Merton