Top Despair Quotes

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Despair Definition

(v. i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

(v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

(v. t.) To cause to despair.

(n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

(n.) That which is despaired of.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flyin...

Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throb...

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.

On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow...

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it tu...

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.