1,310 Quotes About Despair

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before you realize this truth... you will always be in despair.

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for.  There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes

Life is cold; I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes

When you're feeling down, always remember, that dark days will not last for ever. There will be sunshine after the rain, There will be pleasure after the pain.

Hope is a greater warrior than despair.