Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your… — Charles Dickens
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different… — Neil Gaiman
Never despair. Never surrender. — Alan Moore
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King
. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache! — Alexandre Dumas
I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are… — Karen Marie Moning
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.… — H.G. Wells
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps… — Aldo Leopold
Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes — Hiroya Oku
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair;… — Leo Tolstoy
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust… — Tite Kubo
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it… — Charles Dickens
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to… — Chuck Palahniuk
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,… — Jack Kerouac
I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even… — Cate Tiernan
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment,… — Lisa Gardner
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what… — Paul Hawken

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