Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult… — Rob Sheffield
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down… — John Shelby Spong
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is… — John Steinbeck
Despair has its own calms. — Bram Stoker
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter… — Gordon Strachan
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have… — Studs Terkel
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. — Samuel Ullman
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that… — Ayelet Waldman
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that… — Alice Walker
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. — Lawrence Welk
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H.G. Wells
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of… — Paul Wellstone
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. — Morris West
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. — Elie Wiesel
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. — Elie Wiesel
Why was I born with such contemporaries? — Oscar Wilde
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. — George Will
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. — P.G. Wodehouse
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. — Loretta Young
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. — Anne Rice

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