Born Quote by Marian Keyes

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Anonymous

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't…

— Norman Cousins

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

— Alain de Botton

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

— Naomi Wallace

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

— Henry David Thoreau

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier