Despair Quotes

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.

Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, a...

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corri...

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clea...

By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimi...

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown dang...

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

...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.