Adversity Quote by Joan Baez

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

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

— Anonymous

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

— Michael Gilbert

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The melancholy can be black as suicide, gray as depression, white as emptiness and blue as mood. It may appear as fear, boredom, longing,…

— Karin Johannisson

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Donne

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

— Gene Tierney

Despair has its own calms.

— Bram Stoker

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a…

— Neil Gaiman

The path to joy leads through despair.

— Alexander Lowen

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

— Benjamin Disraeli