Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the… — Jim Butcher
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. — Sophie Hannah
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when youâ€™re gone, but one thing I wonâ€™t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair.… — Richelle Mead
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in… — John Piper
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter… — Dean Koontz
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable… — Sigmund Freud
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . .… — John Kennedy Toole
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair. — William P. Young
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. — Rick Riordan
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put… — Muriel Barbery
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move… — John Calvin
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. — Rick Yancey
I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables) — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen
It didnâ€™t and doesnâ€™t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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