Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of… — Dave Barry
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely. — Charles Baudelaire
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss… — Erich Maria Remarque
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of… — Henry Miller
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases… — Mother Teresa
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the… — Haruki Murakami
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November,… — William Peter Blatty
Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this… — William Peter Blatty
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We… — Julian Barnes
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too.… — David Clement-Davies
Despair and die. The ghosts — William Shakespeare
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut… — Evelyn Waugh
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder… — Ralph Nader
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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