Amusement Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

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 leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

— Edward Abbey

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

— George Santayana

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern…

— Vladimir Lenin

“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?”

— Mitchell Heisman

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

— Anonymous

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

— Edmund Burke