Despair Quote by Karsten Harries

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is…

— Henry Rollins

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our…

— Dan Smith

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

— Rebecca Solnit

To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

— Ian Brennan

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time…

— Rodney Crowell

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

— William James

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

— Susannah McCorkle

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out,…

— Florence Welch

“I sing to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the grave, And make them…

— Alfred Tennyson

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do…

— Nikki Sixx

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich