Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With… — Stephen Fry
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? — Robert Breault
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing. — Seneca the Younger
Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. — Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair. — Leigh Hunt
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters. — George Santayana
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. — John Donne
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Despair often breeds disease. — Sophocles
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. — Cyril Connolly
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of… — Louis de Bernieres
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even… — Mary McCarthy
My only hope lies in my despair. — Jean Racine

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