Despair Quote by Walker Percy

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

— Edward Abbey

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

— Anthony Swofford

“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy…

— Tom Robbins

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

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

— Norman Cousins

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the…

— Rollo May

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The…

— Salman Rushdie

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

— Jonathon Keats

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

— Ravi Zacharias