Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come… — Catherine Fisher
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,… — Brennan Manning
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy… — Brennan Manning
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in… — Ann Brashares
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if… — Gary Shteyngart
I am not made for despair — Lian Hearn
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks
How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your… — Charles Dickens
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different… — Neil Gaiman
Never despair. Never surrender. — Alan Moore
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King
. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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