Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Chinua Achebe

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

William Shakespeare

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

William Shakespeare

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

We wrestled pretty well the first round. We had some moments of despair, but overall we had a pretty good round.

Catherynne M. Valente

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Benjamin Franklin

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

William Shakespeare

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits

C. S. Lewis

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Alain de Botton

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

Dean Koontz

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Bram Stoker

Despair has its own calms.

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Denis Kearney

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Edmund Hillary

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

Edmund Burke

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Elie Wiesel

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more ...

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

There's no reason for utter despair, but this looks like a big exaggeration.

Clive Barker

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Abraham Lincoln

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

Alexander Lowen

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

Donella Meadows

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

Christopher Moore

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..