Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.… — Aga Khan IV
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine.… — C. F. W. Walther
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can… — Sarah Kane
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty… — David Hockney
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens
Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… — John O'Donohue
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive… — James Weldon Johnson
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in… — Thomas Carlyle
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat… — John Milton
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius.… — Rob Brezsny
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with… — John Stott
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we… — Phil Callaway
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to… — Vincent de Paul
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen,… — Lettie Cowman
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made… — Joseph Conrad
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves… — Theodor Adorno
Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us,… — Nathaniel Branden

Who Wrote These Despair Quotes

1,070 authors contributed a total of 1,642 Despair Quotes, led by these top contributors: