Top Despair Quotes

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of unde...

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.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible b...

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

This is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will...

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that...

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look for...

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousa...

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry.

Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the gre...

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.