Despair Quotes · Page 6

“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“Suffocate despair with prayers.”

— Ahmed Mayouf

Despair has its own calms.

— Bram Stoker

He who despairs is wrong.

— Victor Hugo

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

“Hope is a fine killing thing.”

— Kirryn Lia Todd

“How can I be made so broken?”

— J Brian Long

Suicide is last cry of help

— Anonymous

“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

— Walker Percy

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

— Kate Morton

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

— Werner Herzog

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

— Graham Greene

“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:”

— William Shakespeare

“FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR”

— Julia Cameron

Some people forget that one of the greatest weapons against despair is prayer.

— Rev Run

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

— Alain de Botton

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like…

— Mark Goulston

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself…

— Wayne Dyer

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive,…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,…

— Jules Verne

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,…

— Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair…

— Ellen Key

We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so…

— Anonymous

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so…

— Leigh Hunt

“I've been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself? If I did not believe in life,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the…

— John Fowles

... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he…

— Marcel Proust

“If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate.…

— Tracie Miles

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went…

— Michael Franti

Possibly humans can exist without actually having to fight. But, many of us have chosen to fight. For what reason? To protect…

— Anonymous

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion…

— Dean Koontz

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain…

— Helen Keller