Quotes with despair

  • It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
  • Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
  • Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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  • Aeschylus 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
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Joseph Addison I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Woody Allen 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.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Gustave Flaubert 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.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Seneca Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joan Baez Action is the antidote to despair.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Franz Kafka 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.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Elie Wiesel Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Matthew Arnold Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • George Eliot But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Christopher Fry Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord Stirling William Alexander Despair and confidence both banish fear.
    Doomsday (1614) The Ninth Hour, 35
    Lord Stirling William Alexander
    American Major General (1726 - 1783)
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  • Barry Cornwall Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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