Quote by Paul Watzlawick

Despair is suffering without meaning.

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

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

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

— Norman Cousins

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

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 is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”

— Patricia Dsouza

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