Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good,… — Robert Dodsley
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? — William Sloane Coffin
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still… — John Ortberg
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. — Robert Herrick
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. — John Boyle O'Reilly
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former… — Blaise Pascal
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in… — Madonna Ciccone
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. — Anatole France
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. — Robert Frank
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West… — Michael Franti
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. — Christopher Fry
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and… — Stephen Fry
Despair gives courage to a coward. — Thomas Fuller
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. — Al Gore
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. — Robert Graves
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! — Pierre Corneille
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. — William Cowper
Despair is the conclusion of fools. — Benjamin Disraeli
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. — Alexandre Dumas
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. — Albert Einstein

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