1,310 Quotes About Despair

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.