Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to… — George Carlin
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. — James Hillman
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take… — Geraldine McCaughrean
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of… — William Saroyan
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. — Janet Fitch
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. — Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing fires the warriorâ€™s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee
To be thoroughly conversant with Manâ€™s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess… — Suzanne Collins
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have… — Connie Willis
When writing goes painfully, when itâ€™s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)â€“then naturally one ought… — Joyce Carol Oates
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second,… — Elie Wiesel
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. — Judith Guest
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair… — John Calvin

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