Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable… — Janet Fitch
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much… — Peter De Vries
Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the… — Henry Rollins
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering… — Henry Rollins
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times… — Madeleine L'Engle
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being,… — Leo Tolstoy
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all… — Martin Heidegger
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.… — Thomas Merton
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.… — Euripides
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people… — Susan Minot
Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full… — Tom Clancy
The only real laughter comes from despair. — Groucho Marx
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… — John Fowles
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not… — Ayn Rand
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or… — Carol Matas
Not to be onto something is to be in despair. — Walker Percy
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light… — Helen Keller
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is!… — Leo Tolstoy
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. — Philip Pullman
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the… — Elizabeth George

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