Quotes on Despair

Author: Avi Arad

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Author: Matthew Arnold

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

Author: Joan Baez

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Author: Jose Bergamin

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Author: John Bunyan

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Author: Edwin Chapin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

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.

Author: John Cheever

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Author: Emile Cioran

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Author: William Congreve

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.

Author: Michael Cunningham

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Author: John Donne

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Author: William Dunbar

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Author: Albert Einstein

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Author: Max Jacob

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

Author: James Johnson

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Author: Franz Kafka

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Author: R. Laing

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

Author: Mario Llosa

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Author: Philip Massinger

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

Author: Marshall McLuhan

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

Author: Menander

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Author: Andrew Motion

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Author: Haruki Murakami

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Author: Ben Okri

Despair often breeds disease.

Author: Sophocles

Despair has its own calms.

Author: Bram Stoker

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

Author: William Thackeray

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Author: Ieyasu Tokugawa

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

Author: Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Author: Elie Wiesel

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Author: Loretta Young

Hope is the moonlight breaking through the darkness of despair.

Author: Sophia Adams

Quotes on Despair

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

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.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

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

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

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Despair often breeds disease.

Despair has its own calms.

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

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

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

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Hope is the moonlight breaking through the darkness of despair.