Despair Quotes

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

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

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.

Despair often breeds disease.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.