Despair Quotes


The person who lives by hope will die by despair. Italian Proverbs Despair 391
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Charlie Chaplin Despair 147
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose and depression is the mechanism of that despair. Andrew Solomon Despair 145
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. James Frey Despair 113
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. William Blake Despair 110
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. Emil Cioran Despair 103
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno Despair 95
Despair gives courage to a coward. Thomas Fuller Despair 90
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter Despair 89
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli Despair 87
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. Ieyasu Tokugawa Despair 87
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. Albert Camus Despair 86
There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. Alexander Suvorov Despair 84
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Elie Wiesel Despair 82
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. Dmitri Shostakovich Despair 80
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. J.R.R. Tolkien Despair 72
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. Charles W. Chesnutt Despair 71
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. Joseph Addison Despair 69
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare Despair 68
Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Despair 66
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. Mahatma Gandhi Despair 66
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that and maybe sleeping beautys dead. Anne Rice Despair 65
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night. Oscar Wilde Despair 62
Make sense who may. I switch off. Samuel Beckett Despair 60
A level of despair is reached, where people are willing to die to punish their tormentors. William KammeraadCampbell Despair 59
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. Joseph Barber Lightfoot Despair 57
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. Oscar Wilde Despair 56
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. Doug Horton Despair 56
Life begins on the other side of despair. JeanPaul Sartre Despair 55
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)Despair 54
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. William Makepeace Thackeray Despair 53
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Thomas Carlyle Despair 52
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. Source Unknown Despair 52
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste like coconut cordial or ceviche to which you can eventually become accustomed but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it. Lemony Snicket Despair 52
Fame youll be famous as famous as can be with everyone watching you win on TV Except when they dont because sometimes they wont.. Dr. Seuss Despair 50
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Thomas Jefferson Despair 49
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud Despair 49
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Gunther Grass Despair 49
Despair is the only genuine atheism. Jean Paul Despair 48
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot Despair 47
The only real laughter comes from despair. Groucho Marx Despair 45
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Eric Hoffer Despair 44
My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isnt like mathin math two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing the way you feel changes everything. Stephenie Meyer Despair 43
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. Joseph Conrad Despair 42
You can tell a lot from a persons nails. When a life starts to unravel theyre among the first to go. Ian McEwan Despair 42
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W. Somerset Maugham Despair 41
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering F. Scott Fitzgerald Despair 39
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair. Patricia Briggs Despair 38
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. Charles Bukowski Despair 36
Let them think what they liked but I didnt mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank but thats not the same thing. Joseph Conrad Despair 32

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