Despair Quotes

So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklac...

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that ...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "Do...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "Do...

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety a...

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to...

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to...

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standin...

It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottom...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

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

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

What makes the hero truly greatis never, never to despair.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really l...

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might d...

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this...

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...

Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair...

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be expe...

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder run...

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fi...

Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with norma...

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further cons...

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...

Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to ...

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus tw...

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I ne...

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death w...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,White as a knuckle and terribly upset.It drags th...

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by b...

Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s ...

Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclo...

Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very f...

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and...

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensit...

...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the indi...

Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has...

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were no...

Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in...

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensit...

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the desc...

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...

Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could...

Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the w...

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart ...

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was do...

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He...

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you...

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks t...

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone ...

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. M...

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had...

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that f...

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not ...

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they ...

Much protest is naïve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such imp...

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...

For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return f...

Dividing earth and skyis not the right wayto think about this wholeness.It only allows one to liveat...

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence...

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the count...

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surren...

February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary....

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

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

Christ! What are patterns for?

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things ...

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the ...

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's...

She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she look...

Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the windo...

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, ...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fle...

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d...