1,310 Quotes About Despair

I have times when I despair, and I cry. There are moments when I want to give up. But my husband needs me. So I get up for one more day.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.