Despair Quotes

He who has never hoped can never despair

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

My only hope lies in my despair.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.