Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known… — George Eliot
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are… — Richard Eyre
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you… — Gustave Flaubert
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has… — Nhat Hanh
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. — Eric Hoffer
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. — Thomas Jefferson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not… — Samuel Johnson
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen… — Erica Jong
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his… — Franz Kafka
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. — Franz Kafka
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. — Jack Kemp
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and… — John F. Kennedy
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R. D. Laing
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.… — Jack Layton
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial… — Vladimir Lenin
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth… — C.S. Lewis
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. — David Livingstone
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where… — Brennan Manning

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