Despair Quotes

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

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.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

I am not made for despair

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.