Calm Quote by Judith Guest

Despair has its own calms.

— Bram Stoker

“Despair has its own calm.”

— Bram Stoker

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

— Luc de Clapiers

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

— Taylor Caldwell

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus,…

— George Eliot

“Despair leads to distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but…

— Jack Handey

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

— Bryan Procter

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

— Jürgen Moltmann

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

— Geraldine Brooks

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