Despair Quotes

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

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

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

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

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

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

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

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Despair often breeds disease.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Despair has its own calms.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.