Despair Quotes

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninterest...

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere...

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

Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it ...

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and t...

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishF...

And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks th...

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignit...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understand...

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to ...

Minus: Papa, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality burst open. Do you understand...

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find desp...

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling is...

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying...

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He ...

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

The IdealThis is where I came from.I passed this way.This should not be shameful Or hard to say.A se...

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare...

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-cons...

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neithe...

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can e...

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the fiel...

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His...

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This ...

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- bu...

Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of ev...

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and year...

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side an...

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease ...

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for...

The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It ...

He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the m...

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way...

... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelit...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even...

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I ...

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the v...

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word...

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man ...

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on t...

something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope.

So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklac...

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that ...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "Do...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "Do...

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety a...

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to...

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to...

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

This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standin...

It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottom...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

What makes the hero truly greatis never, never to despair.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really l...

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might d...