Books Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Despair is suffering without meaning.

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows…

— Pierre Charron

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

— Dean Koontz

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

“People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Despair kills everything, despair is a death without sent.”

— أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

— Todd Snider

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

— Ellis Peters