Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field. — Yehuda Amichai
...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move… — Michelle Richmond
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting… — Soren Kierkegaard
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Khalil Gibran
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these… — Neal A. Maxwell
Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair,… — Neal A. Maxwell
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers… — Lance Armstrong
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of… — Nancy Mitford
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less… — C.S. Lewis
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and… — Hermann Hesse
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse? — Bruce Springsteen
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love… — Blaise Cendrars
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. — Evelyn Waugh
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself. — Albert Camus
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country… — H. L. Mencken
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and… — Melody Beattie

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