Book Quote by Jeremy Collier

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

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

— Jennifer Donnelly

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

— Euripides

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

— Stephanie Mills

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

— Anonymous

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

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

— Franz Kafka

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

— Magnus Magnusson

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

— Yann Martel

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything…

— Anonymous

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

— Lisa Kleypas