Despair Quotes

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. View quote
George Eliot
He who has never hoped can never despair. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. View quote
Michael Jackson
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. View quote
Emil Cioran
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. View quote
William Cowper
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. View quote
William Blake
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. (Frédéric Chopin)
For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. View quote
George Eliot
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. View quote
Edmund Burke
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of a man who desrves them. View quote
Robert Graves
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. View quote
Joseph Addison
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. View quote
Woody Allen
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. View quote
Jack Layton
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. View quote
John Cheever
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. (William Congreve)
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing. View quote
Raymond Williams
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. View quote
H. G. Wells
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. View quote
Gustave Flaubert