DESPAIR QUOTES

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
  ~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
  ~ Stephen Fry ~
• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
  ~ Herbert Read ~
• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
  ~ Herbert Read ~
• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
  ~ Pope John Paul Ii ~
• To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
  ~ Mikhail Bakunin ~
• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
  ~ Leonard Cohen ~
• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
  ~ Robin Gibb ~
• I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
  ~ Andrew Jackson ~
• Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
  ~ Andrew Jackson ~
• Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
  ~ Andrew Jackson ~
• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
  ~ Paul Wellstone ~
• Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
  ~ Gustave Flaubert ~
• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
  ~ Gustave Flaubert ~
• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
  ~ Gustave Flaubert ~
• If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
  ~ Chuck Palahniuk ~
• To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
  ~ Alice Walker ~
• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
  ~ Edmund Burke ~
• Despair gives courage to a coward.
  ~ Thomas Fuller ~
• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
  ~ Paul Ryan ~
• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
  ~ Blaise Pascal ~
• It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
  ~ Hillary Clinton ~
• It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
  ~ Hillary Clinton ~
• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
  ~ John F. Kennedy ~
• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
  ~ John F. Kennedy ~
• My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
  ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
  ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
  ~ Honore De Balzac ~
• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
  ~ Albert Camus ~
• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
  ~ Albert Camus ~
• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
  ~ Albert Camus ~
• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
  ~ Albert Camus ~