Despair Quotes

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.