Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me. — C.E. Murphy
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. — Wendell Berry
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of… — Carl Sandburg
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours — Rodman Philbrick
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair. — Isak Dinesen
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion — Jacqueline Carey
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take… — Rudyard Kipling
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm… — James E. Faust
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order… — Thomas Merton
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of… — Banana Yoshimoto
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other… — Richard John Neuhaus
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow… — Tite Kubo

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