Despair Quotes

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence...

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the count...

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surren...

February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary....

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

Christ! What are patterns for?

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things ...

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the ...

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's...

She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she look...

Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the windo...

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, ...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fle...

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d...

Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't...

They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting il...

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait.Despair says:all you have left of her is y...

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose cou...

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedn...

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, dri...

[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves...

He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu...

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

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their mach...

When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away you...

Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, ...

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe al...

I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think...

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would ha...

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Despair is something horribly simple.

Is there any good news?' Tesla

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better."Nothing will make me feel better, ...

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes ...

... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always...

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m us...

A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antido...

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim pl...

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance...

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday t...

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they d...

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not bei...

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

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

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

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and re...

And I am weary of the anguishIncreasing winters bear;Weary to watch the spirit languishThrough years...

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...

Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and ...

And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the ke...

And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, jus...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or f...

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do ...

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange brig...

There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, ju...

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and...

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last ...

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to...

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made ...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

The only real laughter comes from despair.