Despair Quotes

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.