About Quote by Alain de Botton

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in…

— Thomas Merton

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

— Anonymous

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't…

— Norman Cousins

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Despair often breeds disease.

— Sophocles

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

— Anthony Swofford

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows…

— Pierre Charron

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

— Norman Cousins