30 quotes about Despair



I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Addison, Joseph quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Alvarez, A. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Artaud, Antonin quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Action is the antidote to despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Baez, Joan quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bataille, Georges quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Blake, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Camus, Albert quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Carlyle, Thomas quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Cohen, Leonard quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Eliot, George quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Fuller, Thomas quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gandhi, Mahatma quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Grass, Gunther quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Greene, Graham quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | May, Rollo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Paul, Jean quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Poe, Edgar Allan quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Pound, Ezra quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Proverb, Italian quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Life begins on the other side of despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Sartre, Jean-Paul quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Shakespeare, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Shakespeare, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Stott, John R. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Thackeray, William M. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Twain, Mark quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Unamuno, Miguel De quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Unknown, Source quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wiesel, Elie quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wilde, Oscar quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK