1,310 Quotes About Despair

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

I learned to love despair.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.