Top Despair Quotes

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...

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.

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible...

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking.

Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they have stoppe...

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.-

If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods,Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows?If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs,Why must it follow the samepath to despair?...

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brou...

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, th...

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.