Despair Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep…

— Alain de Botton

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I am not crushed by cliff slide I will become the summit”

— Karla Linn Merrifield

“Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the…

— Whipplesnaith

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Sadly...despair is with humanity and will affect all of us sooner or later. To accomplish the great things we were put on this earth…

— Timothy Pina

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that…

— Ram Dass