Despairing Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer
instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy… — David Levithan
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're… — Arthur Miller
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to… — Edith Wharton
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:… — Victor Hugo
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational… — Peter Straub
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how. — Heinrich Heine
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way… — Adrienne Rich
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates… — Sylvia Plath
Donâ€™t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go… — Amelia Barr
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love… — Henry David Thoreau
One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy,… — Paul Johnson
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and… — Marianne Williamson
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow… — Chris Bohjalian
I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926… — Hamish Bowles
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment… — Sylvia Plath
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. — Kay Redfield Jamison

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