Despair Quotes · Page 46

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

— Dean Koontz

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

— William Shakespeare

“Be a light today for all in despair. In hope that if you should fall...they will light your way tomorrow!

— Timothy Pina

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

— Anonymous

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

— Dolly Parton

He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold

— Anonymous

“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful…

— Sylvia Plath

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they…

— Edmund Burke

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like…

— Anonymous

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the…

— Khalil Gibran

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness…

— Alexander Pope

In an era when we complain about bland drivers, who are very on-message and very professional, Lewis always gives you a feeling…

— David Coulthard

Playing with someones life is sign of loser ,& Playing with your own life for someone is sign of ______________? fill it…

— Shafique Ahmed

“To all thinking about hurting yourself over your despair: it will get better if you allow it to...it always does. Now please…

— Timothy Pina

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like…

— Jane Goodall

I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about…

— Olof Arnalds

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one…

— Charles Dickens

“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way…

— Don DeLillo

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the…

— Richard Flanagan

At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Once again, in my greatest hour of despair, I seek refuge in her chaos.”

— Kamil Alvi

“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at…

— Susan Heather

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

— Paul Kingsnorth

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks…

— Max Lucado

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

— Anonymous

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them

— Anonymous

“In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.”

— Lawrence Durrell

As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit…

— Paul Scholes

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

— Zadie Smith

“It's nonsensical the way you tickle my ventricles and use many magical mirrors to show me I'm identical to everything that's invincible.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up…

— Anonymous

Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else.

— Anonymous

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

— Irvin D. Yalom

a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

— Pope Benedict XVI

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest…

— Henri Matisse