“who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Dear Daughter, Do not seek help from anyone who cannot wait to see you on the brink of despair.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did… — Nicola Clark Copy Share Image
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil...who put darkness for light and light for darkness...who put bitter for sweet… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination… — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts… — Neal S. Dow Copy Share Image
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
![“After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.” quote by Norman Macbeth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/norman-macbeth-47158_despair_after-observing-mutations-in-fruit-flies_221683.jpg)
![“[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the…” quote by Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2b/agnes-repplier-1850_benefits_mary-wortley-montagu-wrote-more-letters_1332253.jpg)
![“An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of…” quote by Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/soren-kierkegaard-578_despair_an-individual-in-despair-despairs-over-s_2865905.jpg)
