Despair Quotes

• Despair makes priests and friars.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Despair
  • Priest
  • Friars

• Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Soul
  • Doubt
  • Personality

• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Real
  • Reason

• Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Despair
  • Crisis
  • Reform

• I learned to love despair.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Love
  • Learned
  • Despair

• Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Eyes
  • Dancing
  • Despair

• The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.

  

  Judith Malina
  • Art
  • Together
  • Culture

• The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...but the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Choose
  • Despair
  • Willing

• In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

  

  Allen Wheelis
  • Desire
  • Despair
  • Intense

• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists - Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Philosophy
  • Convince
  • Sophists

• Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Tears
  • Despair

• Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Song
  • Moving
  • Inspiration

• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Baby
  • Grace
  • Grateful

• Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Growing
  • Despair

• After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Feeling
  • Sorrow
  • Scalpels

• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  

  George Eliot
  • Wonder
  • Genius
  • Mood

• He who despairs is wrong.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wrong
  • Despair

• For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Despair
  • Commerce

• We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.

  

  Miranda Hart
  • Beautiful
  • Unique
  • Hell

• You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Pain
  • Despair
  • Craven

• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Evil
  • Consciousness
  • Excuse

• 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
  • Beauty
  • Eternity
  • Despair

• Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Despair
  • Victims
  • Victors

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