Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the… — Dean Koontz
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the… — Paulo Coelho
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. — Anthony Swofford
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through… — A.M. Jenkins
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the… — Philip Pullman
.....joy runs deeper than despair. — Corrie Ten Boom
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. — Simone de Beauvoir
We should impart our courage and not our despair. — Henry David Thoreau
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do… — Erica Jong
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all… — Sylvia Plath
He who has never hoped can never despair — George Bernard Shaw
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry… — Nicholas Sparks
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it… — Jim Butcher
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything… — Soren Kierkegaard
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair. — Patricia Briggs
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. — Truman Capote
The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity… — Joel Osteen
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but… — Julian Barnes
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us… — Henry Miller

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