Despair Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

— Edmund Burke

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

— Rohinton Mistry

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

— Todd Snider

Despair has its own calms.

— Bram Stoker

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

— Dean Koontz

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has…

— Catherine Fisher

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

— Norman Cousins

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a…

— Neil Gaiman