Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am a free manâ€•and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion;… — Henry Miller
Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed throughâ€”usually with relief… — Stephenie Meyer
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain de Botton
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. — Sonya Hartnett
Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love. — Craig Ferguson
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… — Susanna Kaysen
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all. — Jennifer Donnelly
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and… — William Faulkner
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son.… — Eva Ibbotson
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To… — Lee Child
I felt despair. The wordâ€™s overused and banalified now, despair, but itâ€™s a serious word, and Iâ€™m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in… — Banana Yoshimoto
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts! — James Patterson
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. — Kiersten White
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous… — Luke Davies
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive… — Peter Straub

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