Despair Quote by Kotlesya

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

— Anonymous

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

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

— Charlie Chaplin

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

— John Bowlby

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in…

— Thomas Merton

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with…

— Richard Steele

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I…

— Lucy Grealy

It's said that someone who gives to others is in need the most, who treats others kindly is often mistreated, who is always smiling…

— Michael Loud

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

— Malcolm X

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine