Despair Quotes
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This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
Eyedea -
Despair swallows up cowardice.
William Hazlitt
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There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.
William Goyen -
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
Andrew Solomon -
We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
Albert Einstein -
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
Emile Zola -
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
Ernest Hemingway -
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
Robert Frost -
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 path to joy leads through despair.
Alexander Lowen -
I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
William Shakespeare -
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.
Elizabeth Lesser -
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
Hal Lindsey -
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
Alice Thomas Ellis -
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Benjamin Banneker -
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugene Ionesco -
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
Andrew Solomon
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde -
Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles -
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.
Yana Toboso -
Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
William Shakespeare