Despair Quotes
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Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. (Quote by - Diane de Poitiers)
Despair is the conclusion of fools. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Life begins on the other side of despair. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way." (Quote by - Eliza Cook)
The nympholepsy of some fond despair. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But 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. (Quote by - Marion Zimmer Bradley)
O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. (Quote by - John Milton)
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
He who has never hoped can never despair. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Despair doubles our strength. (Quote by - English proverb)
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him. (Quote by - Elizabeth Ann Seton)
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven. (Quote by - Richard Baxter)
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Faith is courage; it is creative, while despair is always destructive. (Quote by - David S. Muzzey)
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility. (Quote by - William F. Lynch)
Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out. (Quote by - Paule Marshall)
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. (Quote by - Lady Blessington)
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair, I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in You, my God. (Quote by - Gemma Galgani)
Despair is criminal. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life. (Quote by - Rupert Brooke)
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee To nothing but despair. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. (Quote by - Thomas Morton)
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men, from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair. (Quote by - Hasidic saying)
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. (Quote by - Roger W. Babson)
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. (Quote by - William M. Thackeray)
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. (Quote by - Menander)
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. (Quote by - John Milton)
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Action is the antidote to despair. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end. (Quote by - George Moore)
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendered. (Quote by - John Donne)
The name of the Slough was Despond. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. (Quote by - Horace)
O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Despair ruins some, presumption many. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;" And tender friends go sighing round, "What love can ever cure this wound?" My days go on, my days go on. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
