Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. Votes: 3
William Makepeace ThackerayThere was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. Votes: 3
John BunyanDespair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. Votes: 3
Edward AbbeyDespair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: Votes: 3
Alexander CockburnDespair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. Votes: 3
Luc de ClapiersDespair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. Votes: 3
Sir Fulke GrevilleDespair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. Votes: 3
Al AlvarezSymmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Votes: 3
Victor HugoDespair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauThe Black Pit of Despair is temporarily closed for renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience. Votes: 3
David C. HolleyDespair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile. Votes: 3
Taylor CaldwellDespair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. Votes: 3
Thomas PynchonDespair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness. Votes: 3
Jason E. HodgesSafe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. Votes: 3
Emily DickinsonOnly a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. Votes: 2
Alexandre DumasSometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! Votes: 2
Frederic ChopinBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Votes: 2
George EliotBecause I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Votes: 2
Elie WieselNow, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareThere's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. Votes: 2
Haruki MurakamiWe draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. Votes: 2
Cesar ChavezEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. Votes: 2
H. G. WellsIt is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. Votes: 2
J. R. R. TolkienReligion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonBelieve flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachOur greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachFools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachFinding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... Votes: 0
Martin SeligmanMen circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair. Votes: 0
Carla H. KruegerNever give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfInvention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. Votes: 0
William CongrevePatience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. Votes: 0
Douglas William JerroldTo be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. Votes: 0
Raymond WilliamsThe moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensOptimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. Votes: 0
Erich FrommThe stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettWhat reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. Votes: 0
John MiltonTo be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable. Votes: 0
Raymond WilliamsGod gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. Votes: 0
Joseph Barber LightfootIsn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? Votes: 0
William Sloane CoffinStrength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. Votes: 0
Brenda ShaughnessyI love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. Votes: 0
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de LespinasseThere is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultBehind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. Votes: 0
John BowlbyShakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Votes: 0
Eugene IonescoTo hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. Votes: 0
James HillmanHope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair. Votes: 0
Nikki RosenThe strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. Votes: 0
John MiltonInspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair Votes: 0
Robert HunterThe surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonPeople settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. Votes: 0
Soren Kierkegaardshe was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiDo not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauNo matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaDisappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. Votes: 0
Saleh al-MutlaqWhen a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. Votes: 0
Dmitri ShostakovichLiquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsShould all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhen they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. Votes: 0
Abbe PierreO star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? Votes: 0
Thomas CampbellHe howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness. Votes: 0
Alan KinrossThe characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. Votes: 0
Herbert ReadHe who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauOur common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope. Votes: 0
Lawrence H. KeeleyThe entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. Votes: 0
Omar KhayyamWe always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWho would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. Votes: 0
Ella Wheeler WilcoxIt is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. Votes: 0
Jeremy TaylorAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. Votes: 0
William CowperThough plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsPoverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonAppetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. Votes: 0
Thomas HobbesSometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. Votes: 0
Frederic ChopinMy name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. Votes: 0
Oscar Hammerstein II"It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair. Votes: 0
Isobelle CarmodyMy name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyComedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Votes: 0
Christopher FryAll reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Votes: 0
Holly Goldberg SloanPanic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. Votes: 0
Janet FitchThe soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". Votes: 0
Hayao MiyazakiOnly someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasThe poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. Votes: 0
Max JacobHe who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Votes: 0
MenanderWhen even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. Votes: 0
Cyril ConnollyDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 0
Pope John Paul IIHe who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Votes: 0
MenanderDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 0
John Paul IIHope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneIn the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. Votes: 0
Dean KoontzWords have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudTo tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeRefuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! Votes: 0
Lou EngleI sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? Votes: 0
Marian Keyes...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair. Votes: 0
Mark TwightUncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. Votes: 0
David MalletI don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about. Votes: 0
Robert HelpmannI was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: "I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirYou don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonIf you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore. Votes: 0
Naomi WallaceWe salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair. Votes: 0
Guy Gavriel Kay...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeWhen I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. Votes: 0
Alanis MorissetteTo live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. Votes: 0
Cornel WestI would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. Votes: 0
Morris GleitzmanThe Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacWhere does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotI get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly. Votes: 0
Cleve JonesThe depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleAlienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. Votes: 0
Emile ZolaGod put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. Votes: 0
Albert CamusBeing unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair. Votes: 0
Roger Scrutona spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVIThe slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. Votes: 0
Vikas SwarupPoetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. Votes: 0
Gregory OrrLove- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonEverything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. Votes: 0
Elias CanettiWhat does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain~? Votes: 0
Mitchell HeismanIf the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggSins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. Votes: 0
Piers Paul ReadThe difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonFor many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasA discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. Votes: 0
Richard E. ByrdSin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardBoast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. Votes: 0
Bernard BerensonIf you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? Votes: 0
Robert BreaultNihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. Votes: 0
Albert CamusOptimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. Votes: 0
Alice Thomas EllisSomething doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. Votes: 0
B. F. SkinnerThe doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingLet no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerBelieve not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Votes: 0
Francis BaconThose who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. Votes: 0
AeschylusMaidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Votes: 0
Lord ByronThe storm ate up Septemberâs cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are. Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteMarriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneSuccess always have in god work. self humiliation are devil work Do not ever despair of His Essence Votes: 0
Waseem ShamsiFor happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghIsak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. Votes: 0
Raymond CarverWhen you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonThat is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive. Votes: 0
Jonathon KeatsThere is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. Votes: 0
Donella MeadowsWe define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWhen your life is crazy and chaotic don't despair, it has to be this way before a breakthrough Votes: 0
Nancy EbrahimA man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. Votes: 0
Martin LutherCan calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonShe had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinBeing a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienOnly when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardStuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. Votes: 0
Maureen JohnsonIf Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriI don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. Votes: 0
Natalie MerchantWhen you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. Votes: 0
Avi AradYou can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. Votes: 0
Sophie HannahThe law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it. Votes: 0
Hal LindseyTo a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. Votes: 0
William Lyon PhelpsIt is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleI despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life. Votes: 0
Jim CymbalaThe opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. Votes: 0
Warren G. BennisI have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonWe do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. Votes: 0
Robert JensenWe are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. Votes: 0
Philip PullmanHow easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch Votes: 0
Karsten HarriesWhen we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope. Votes: 0
Stephen RichardsThe piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. Votes: 0
Bradley JosephIt always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeWhen I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeTo be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminI don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. Votes: 0
Alexander PayneGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. Votes: 0
Hermann Hesse