Despair Quotes · Page 48

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

— Natalie Merchant

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

— Hayao Miyazaki

“In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and…

— Jess Rothenberg

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for…

— Elie Wiesel

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love…

— William Butler Yeats

I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic.

— Ol Parker

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

— Christopher Hitchens

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings…

— Kahlil Gibran

“She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going…

— Diyar Harraz

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I…

— Simona Panova

Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God…

— John Calvin

We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light,…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up,…

— Franz Kafka

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe…

— Mark Helprin

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with…

— Lance Armstrong

“If only I could cry. I am beyond that. The light, the light, lending itself to empty downtown Saturday, but still the…

— Maryse Holder

My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er…

— Charles Robert Maturin

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number…

— Douglas MacArthur

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness…

— George Eliot

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical…

— David Hume

“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My…

— Czesław Miłosz

“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be…

— Walker Percy

“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”

— Paco Ignacio Taibo II

All the world's for living when love is what you find. Despair and loneliness, you've got to leave them far behind.

— Kansas

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

— Arthur Helps

“When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.”

— Alice Hoffman

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

— Paul Sinha

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

— Warren Buffett

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

— Anthony Mackie

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

— Marian Keyes

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

— Olympia Dukakis

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

— Og Mandino