Despair Quotes · Page 70

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing…

— Ben Okri

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with…

— Terry Pratchett

Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this…

— Keri Hulme

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old…

— Douglas MacArthur

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whisper.

— Anonymous

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

— Bruce Dickinson

I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the…

— Jon Foreman

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to…

— Steve Almond

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

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

— John Bowlby

“Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a…

— Zack Love

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

— Paul Stewart

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to…

— John Bunyan

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not…

— Thomas Nagel

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I…

— Anonymous

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength…

— Max Ehrmann

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

— Anonymous

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe…

— Paul Wellstone

“Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?”

— Heather Chaplin

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any…

— Viktor E. Frankl

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving…

— Miriam Toews

“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I…

— Joseph von Eichendorff

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

— Dalai Lama