1,310 Quotes About Despair

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.