Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. — William Shakespeare
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — — Alexandre Dumas
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under… — Leo Tolstoy
I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev." Barabas sighed dramatically.… — Ilona Andrews
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers,… — Jules Verne
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate… — Henry David Thoreau
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my… — Anne Sexton
...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that… — Margaret Atwood
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;… — Douglas MacArthur
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On… — Albert Camus
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. — Oswald Chambers
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other… — Kate Chopin
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of… — Lynne Truss
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly… — Thomas Moore
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for… — E E Cummings
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to… — Georgette Heyer
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the… — Jim Butcher
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. — Sophie Hannah
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair.… — Richelle Mead

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