Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Hate engenders loneliness and despair — Jocelyn Murray
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow… — Kay Redfield Jamison
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury. — Lionel
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair!… — Jeff Iorg
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. — Robert Breault
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I… — Aleksandar Hemon
We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant… — Philippa Gregory
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I… — Desmond Tutu
I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but… — Amby Burfoot
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish,… — Robert Collier
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up. — Peter De Vries
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. — Andre Gide
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find… — Emile M. Cioran
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside. — Dave Matthews
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to… — Michel de Montaigne
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer
Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up. — William James

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