Despair Quotes
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There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
— Henri Matisse
the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it.
— Angela Elwell Hunt
The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
— Bradley Joseph
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair.
— Eileen Wilks
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Despair is part of love.
— Andrew Solomon
All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in.
— Sarah J. Maas
Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
— Anthony Mackie
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
All shall love me and despair.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
God is a great healer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Make LOVE ... Not WAR!Give Our World Peace And Not Despair — Timothy Pina
To enjoy it again and again in those moments of joy and despair, I carry the beauty of your love in the hidden chamber of my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.
— Philip K. Dick
Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy.
— Marty Rubin
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
— Theodore Parker
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
— Lawrence Welk
Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
— Rick Riordan
The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
— Emil Cioran
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
— Mahalia Jackson
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
— John Donne
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
— Louis Finkelstein
Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!
— Timothy Pina
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Law is born from despair of human nature.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Some days simply lay on you like stones.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
— William Walsh
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
— Leonid Andreyev
Too much rouge is a sign of despair.
— Arlene Dahl
True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.
— David Sedaris
Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.
— Roland Barthes
Oy runs deeper than despair.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Souls don't bleed. Light and darkness pour through the cracks until the vessel is empty.
— Katie St. Claire
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
She became the bad company that she kept.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Hate engenders loneliness and despair
— Jocelyn Murray
I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair.
— Anne Frank
He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
— Phillip W. Simpson
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
— Robert Kennedy
Don't despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that's how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
— Peter Kreeft
A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
— Michael Chabon
You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering.
— Stevan V. Nikolic
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
— Michael Gilbert
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
— Dean Koontz
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
— Charles Lamb
No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I keep my hope alive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
— Richard E. Byrd
The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I cannot cure despair when people find comfort in it.
— Paulo Coelho
Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
— Robert Breault
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
— Audre Lorde
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
— George Santayana
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
— Max Lucado
Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.
— Marty Rubin
Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.
— Anonymous
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[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.
— Sandor Marai
This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.
— Jane Alexander
He who has never hoped can never despair
— George Bernard Shaw
Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.
— Henry David Thoreau
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
— Matthew Arnold
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
— Bernard Berenson
At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.
— Melina Marchetta
Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind -
— James Dashner
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
— Robert Greene
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
— Leonard Cohen
The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare
