Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. — Robert Frost
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise — John Cleese
Since when do we even play games?â€ â€œSince when donâ€™t we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of… — Richelle Mead
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on… — Ann Aguirre
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so… — Julia Cameron
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same… — Muhammad Yunus
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal… — Kim Harrison
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and… — Susan Sontag
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at… — Barbara Kingsolver
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on… — John Keats
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought. — Diana Wynne Jones
The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless… — Jean Vanier
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green… — E E Cummings
Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears. — Emilie Autumn
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I… — Helene Hanff
All shall love me and despair. — J.R.R. Tolkien
For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none. — Anne Rice
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and… — Thomas S. Monson

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