Darkness Quote by Anonymous

“Despair leads to distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“…despair is what keeps love alive.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“...hope, even when the world tells you to despair.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“Despair has its own calm.”

— Bram Stoker

“Fight your propensity to be hopeless.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

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

— Franz Kafka

“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.”

— Jonathan Harnisch

“Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you settle for despair, there is nothing I or anyone else can do to help you.”

— Linda Lafferty

“When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope.”

— Stephen Richards