Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache! — Alexandre Dumas
I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are… — Karen Marie Moning
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.… — H.G. Wells
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps… — Aldo Leopold
Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes — Hiroya Oku
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair;… — Leo Tolstoy
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust… — Tite Kubo
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it… — Charles Dickens
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to… — Chuck Palahniuk
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,… — Jack Kerouac
I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even… — Cate Tiernan
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment,… — Lisa Gardner
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what… — Paul Hawken
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become… — Hermann Hesse
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of… — Jean-Paul Sartre
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself… — Henri Nouwen
I must choose between despair and Energyâ”€â”€I choose the latter. — John Keats
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in… — Cormac McCarthy

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