Despair Quotes

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life begins on the other side of despair.La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir

JeanPaul Sartre

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

William James

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jean Paul

People generally despise where they flatter

Aristotle

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical sufferinghttp://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/obituaries.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Pastin

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.

Katherine Anne Porter

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Antonin Artaud

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

Joseph Addison

A level of despair is reached, where people are willing to die to punish their tormentors.

William KammeraadCampbell, Willi

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.

Blaise Pascal

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Albert Camus

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

Andre Dubus