Desperate Quote by William Blake

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

— William Blake

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

— William Samuel Johnson

But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear

— Greek Proverb

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

— Thomas Paine

“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus,…

— George Eliot

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

— May Sarton

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness,…

— Edward T. Hall

“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who, surviving its…

— Thomas Paine

Despair has its own calms.

— Bram Stoker