Despair Quotes

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

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

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Where there is hope, there is 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.