Quotes and Sayings About Despair
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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
-- A.M. Jenkins -
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
-- Abbe Pierre -
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
-- Agathon -
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
-- Alain de Botton -
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
-- Alain de Botton -
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
-- Albert Camus -
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
-- Albert Camus -
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
-- Albert Camus -
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
-- Albert Camus -
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
-- Albert Camus -
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
-- Alexander Cockburn -
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
-- Alexander Payne -
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
-- Alexandre Dumas -
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.
-- Alfred Brendel -
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
-- Alfred the Great -
Despair the twin-born of devotion.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.
-- Alistair Begg -
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
-- Allen Wheelis -
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.
-- Amanda Burton -
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
-- Amy Tan -
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
-- Andrew Marvell
