1,310 Quotes About Despair

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Overworking leads to exhaustion.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

I nurture daily my wellness.

I've seen enough change in my lifetime to know that despair is not only self-defeating, it is unrealistic.

Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ("A Father's Story")

A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.

Our level of personal awareness and time devoted to reflecting upon the important issues of life determines how we perceive the world, address loneliness, and blunt despair.