Despair Quote by Philip Yancey

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

— Andre Gide

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The path to joy leads through despair.

— Alexander Lowen

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time…

— David Hume

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

— John Donne

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Ellis Peters