Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I… — Melissa Manchester
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. — Natalie Merchant
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my… — Ron Pope
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life… — Mary Balogh
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,… — John Cheever
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's… — Lawrence Wright
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the… — Paul Westerberg
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we… — Maximus the Confessor
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence… — Calvin Seerveld
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you… — Louise Mensch
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about… — Orison Swett Marden
Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into… — Marianne Williamson
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that… — Norman Cousins
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -… — Gerhard Richter
Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair. — Mata Amritanandamayi
This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before… — William Styron
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain… — William Morris Hunt
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in… — Joyce Cary
Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory. — Walter F. Mondale
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food… — Karin Fossum

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