Agony Quote by Emily Dickinson

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Norman Cousins

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

— Charlie Chaplin

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

— Albert Camus

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

— Jonathon Keats

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

— John Donne

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

— Robert Jensen

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

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

— Edmund Burke

The best medicine for despair is service.

— Gordon B. Hinckley