Despair Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Despair often breeds disease.

— Sophocles

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows…

— Pierre Charron

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

— Hadewijch

Despair is part of love.

— Andrew Solomon

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

— Benjamin Franklin

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Despair is infidelity and death.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

— Luc de Clapiers

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

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