Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

People arenâ€™t interested in the truth, Dafar. Theyâ€™re interested in what keeps them safe. Theyâ€™re interested in being looked after. Theyâ€™re interested in a tale… — Melina Marchetta
If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But… — Unknown Author
Despair is a free man--hope is a slave. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the… — Erich Fromm
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color… — Erin Morgenstern
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson
Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come… — Karen Marie Moning
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic… — Samuel Adams
For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. — Ravi Zacharias
Itâ€™s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though youâ€™re feeling deeply. Just… — Aldous Huxley
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. — Tanith Lee
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if… — Jon Krakauer
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this… — Lawrence M. Krauss
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope. — Alain de Botton
If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love… — Karen Marie Moning
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one… — Paullina Simons
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better… — Og Mandino

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