Despair Quotes

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

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.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

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

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.