1,310 Quotes About Despair

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again

The longest path leads to the destiny destination.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Don’t cry for them to be happy. Find courage to overcome the circumstance.

Quite the opposite actually. I think having hope is one of the most important things you can do. Once you let go of it, despair takes over. Despair will kill you quicker than hope ever could. So if you're going to hold onto something...I'm glad it's that.

In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that’s their choice and their freedom. I won’t judge them.

No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything; especially the choices that still lie within your control.