Despairing Quotes

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.