Despair Quotes · Page 42

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

— Richard E. Byrd

“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you…

— Honoré de Balzac

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

— Michael Gilbert

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

— Alain de Botton

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

— Eric Felten

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.

— Maurice Levy

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

— Maurice Sendak

By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of…

— Debbie Ford

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in…

— Helene Hanff

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more…

— Emily Susan Rapp

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we…

— Orson Bean

The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You…

— Anonymous

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,…

— William Shakespeare

I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Okieriete Onaodowan

Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible…

— Peter Drucker

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,…

— Khalil Gibran

What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand…

— Lierre Keith

“It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary…

— Anna Kavan

“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray…

— Lyman Abbott

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

— Frederic Chopin

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

— Charles Bukowski

“You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are…

— Alisha Rai

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

— Peace Pilgrim

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take…

— Ellen J. Barrier

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

— Allen Wheelis

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian…

— Pierre Duhem

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves our of despair.”

— Donna Tartt

Dont despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes thats how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

— Christopher Fry

“Say a prayer for those in despair. May all their tomorrows be sunny and bright... filled with hope to conquer over all…

— Timothy Pina

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Perhaps they are concocting a plan to steal Mona away from The Shade… thus leaving it utterly defenseless. Despair clawed at my…

— Bella Forrest

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction…

— Marilynne Robinson