Despair Quotes · Page 48

“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into…

— Phillip W. Simpson

“A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.”

— Zack Love

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel.”

— Franz Kafka

“The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus”

— Alistair Horne

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

— John Bunyan

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the…

— Eyedea

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

— Anonymous

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make…

— Cornel West

When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the…

— John H. Groberg

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

— Ricky Schroder

“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make…

— Honoré de Balzac

there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and…

— e. e. cummings

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,…

— Noam Chomsky

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age…

— Charles Dickens

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.…

— David Whyte

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to…

— Terry Goodkind

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when…

— Thomas Heatherwick

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's…

— Cate Tiernan

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a…

— Wayne Dyer

I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my…

— Henry Miller

“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

— Isobelle Carmody

Give me your love. Give me your pain. This is battle and I'm fighting to stay sane.

— Marly

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

— Ravi Zacharias

“Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than…

— Megan Derr

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

— Agathon

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

— Derrick Bell

“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of…

— Franz Kafka

Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

— Franz Kafka

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste…

— James Alan Gardner

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

— Bradley Joseph

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

— Sonya Hartnett

“Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.”

— Dale Carnegie

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

— Louie Giglio

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

— Jeremy Collier