Despair Quotes

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

False hope is worse than despair.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.