Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become… — Hermann Hesse
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of… — Jean-Paul Sartre
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself… — Henri Nouwen
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. — John Keats
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in… — Cormac McCarthy
Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the… — Nicholas Sparks
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on… — Hermann Hesse
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek… — Markus Zusak
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
A world without hope, but no despair — Henry Miller
I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate… — Ellen Hopkins
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) — J.R.R. Tolkien
If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your… — Deb Caletti
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson
There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that... — J R Ward
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. — Soren Kierkegaard
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob… — Salman Rushdie
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at… — Flannery O'Connor
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had… — Karl Marlantes
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. — James Frey
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep… — David Clement-Davies

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