Despair Quotes - Page 8

• Dean Koontz / Author

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

• Abbe Pierre / Priest

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

• Robert Helpmann / Dancer

I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

• Roger Scruton / Philosopher

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

• Elias Canetti / Novelist

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

• Alexander Payne / Film Director

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

• Hermann Hesse / Poet

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

• Thomas Merton / Writer

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

• Soren Kierkegaard / Philosopher

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

• J. R. R. Tolkien / Writer

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

• Robert Jensen / Professor

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

• Thomas Hobbes / Philosopher

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

• Janet Fitch / Author

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

• Warren G. Bennis / Author

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

• Maureen Johnson / Author

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

• Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate

Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress.

• David Mallet / Dramatist

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

• Marian Keyes / Novelist

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

• Cesar Chavez / Civil Rights Activist

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

• Donella Meadows / Environmental Writer

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

• Pope Benedict Xvi /

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

• Oscar Wilde / Writer

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

• Alain De Botton / Writer

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

• Lou Engle / Religious Leader

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

• Jim Cymbala / Author

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

• Sophie Hannah / Poet

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

• Chinua Achebe / Novelist

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

• Michel De Montaigne / Writer

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

• Bradley Joseph / Composer

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

• Raymond Carver / Writer

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

• Jose Bergamin / Writer

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

• Taylor Caldwell / Novelist

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

• Lord Byron / Baron Byron

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

• B. F. Skinner / Psychologist

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

• John Milton / Poet

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

• Menander / Dramatist

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

• Emile Lahoud /

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

• Joseph Addison / Essayist

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

• William Butler Yeats / Poet

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

• Saint Augustine / Saint

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

• Colin Powell / Former United States Secretary Of State

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

• Robert Graves / Poet

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

• Henry David Thoreau / Author

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

• Rollo May / Psychologist

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

• Alfred De Vigny / Poet

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

• Paul Kingsnorth / Writer

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

• Albert Camus / Author

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

• George Monbiot / Writer

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

• Edgar Guest / Poet

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.