Despair Quotes

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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. — Lisa Kleypas
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of… — Clive Barker
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow… — William Butler Yeats
It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at… — Anne Frank
And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most importantâ€” self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes. — Brandon Sanderson
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up… — Brandon Sanderson
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show… — Jacqueline Wilson
The storm ate up Septemberâ€™s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are. — Catherynne M. Valente
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. — George R. R. Martin
Youâ€™ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair. — Henry Rollins
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. — Giacomo Casanova
Despair and Genius are too oft connected — Lord Byron
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which… — Julian Barnes
There are those among you who, although young, have already suffered a full measure of grief and sorrow. My heart is filled with compassion and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or… — Steig Larsson
â€ŽIt is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair. — Isobelle Carmody

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