Despair Quote by Victor Hugo

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

— Victor Hugo

“The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it is less immediately…

— Mark Doty

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before…

— Alain de Botton

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey

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

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

— Mathieu Amalric

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

— Lu Xun

“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face…

— Alain de Botton