Top Despair Quotes Collection

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Image of Max Ehrmann
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.
- Max Ehrmann
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Image of John Derbyshire
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.
- John Derbyshire
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Image of Gene Tierney
Where there is hope, there is no despair.
- Gene Tierney
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Image of Muriel Barbery
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
- Muriel Barbery
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Image of Mary Renault
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
- Mary Renault
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Image of Christopher Moore
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.
- Christopher Moore
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Image of Alain de Botton
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
- Alain de Botton
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Image of Cornel West
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
- Cornel West
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Image of Jean Paul
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
- Jean Paul
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Image of Amitav Ghosh
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
- Amitav Ghosh
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Image of Francoise Sagan
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
- Francoise Sagan
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Image of Alexander Lowen
Despair is the only cure for illusion.
- Alexander Lowen
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Image of Roger Scruton
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
- Roger Scruton
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Image of Lian Hearn
I am not made for despair
- Lian Hearn
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Image of Lu Xun
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
- Lu Xun
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Image of Ellis Peters
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
- Ellis Peters
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Image of Hiroya Oku
Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes
- Hiroya Oku
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Image of Thomas F. Wilson
Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.
- Thomas F. Wilson
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Image of Allen Wheelis
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
- Allen Wheelis
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Image of Arlene Dahl
Too much rouge is a sign of despair.
- Arlene Dahl
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Image of C. V. Wedgwood
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
- C. V. Wedgwood
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Image of Jack W. Hayford
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
- Jack W. Hayford
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Image of Eve Babitz
I was always much too elated to imagine despair.
- Eve Babitz
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Image of Robert South
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
- Robert South
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Image of Finn Juhl
One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe
- Finn Juhl
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Image of Lou Engle
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
- Lou Engle
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Image of Anne Shirley
I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.
- Anne Shirley
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Image of Yehuda Amichai
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
- Yehuda Amichai
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Image of Todd Snider
It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.
- Todd Snider
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Image of Mary Baker Eddy
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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Image of Jean-Claude Izzo
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.
- Jean-Claude Izzo
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Image of John Bowlby
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
- John Bowlby
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Image of Raymond Williams
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
- Raymond Williams
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Image of Charles G. Dawes
For me--I hold no commerce with despair!
- Charles G. Dawes
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Image of Vikas Swarup
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
- Vikas Swarup
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Image of Judith Guest
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
- Judith Guest
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Image of Samuel
Despair young and never look back.
- Samuel
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Image of Naomi Wallace
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
- Naomi Wallace
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Image of Avi Arad
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
- Avi Arad
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Image of Sigmund Freud
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Lionel
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
- Lionel
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Image of Yuna
It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
- Yuna
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Image of William Goyen
There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.
- William Goyen
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Image of Jason Silva
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
- Jason Silva
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Image of Werner Herzog
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
- Werner Herzog
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Image of Guy Gavriel Kay
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.
- Guy Gavriel Kay
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Image of Soren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Image of Karsten Harries
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
- Karsten Harries
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Image of Donella Meadows
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
- Donella Meadows
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Image of William Shakespeare
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
- William Shakespeare
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