Despair Quotes - page 2

Life begins on the other side of despair. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. View quote
Max Jacob
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world. View quote
Blaise Cendrars
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. View quote
Lawrence Wright
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it-always... View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. View quote
Elie Wiesel
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. View quote
Antonin Artaud
A world without hope, but no despair. (Henry Miller)
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, "or die of despair. View quote
Philip Pullman
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. View quote
Seneca
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. View quote
Georges Bataille
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is not love of life without despair about life. View quote
Albert Camus
Despair has its own calms. View quote
Bram Stoker
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. View quote
Charles Lamb
To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us. (Philip Massinger)
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have. View quote
William Blake
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. View quote
Anatole France
Despair is the greatest of our errors. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues