Common Quote by Leo Tolstoy

It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering].…

— Max Lucado

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is…

— Colum McCann

I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There…

— Joanna Coles

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

— Anonymous

Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Anonymous

When you find yourself in trying times remember that in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we…

— Joko Beck