1,310 Quotes About Despair

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.

It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life.

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

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, ‘This is how I will learn to live again’.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.

When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.