Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion — Jacqueline Carey
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take… — Rudyard Kipling
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm… — James E. Faust
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order… — Thomas Merton
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of… — Banana Yoshimoto
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other… — Richard John Neuhaus
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow… — Tite Kubo
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to… — George Carlin
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. — James Hillman
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take… — Geraldine McCaughrean
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of… — William Saroyan
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. — Janet Fitch
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. — Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee

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