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Despair Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
- I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the…
- Despair is suffering without meaning.
- I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt…
- A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
More Despair Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson
- Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — B.F. Skinner
- Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We… — May Sarton