Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hillman

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Janet Fitch

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

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

Henry David Thoreau

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All shall love me and despair.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Flannery O'Connor

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Henry Miller

A world without hope, but no despair

Jacqueline Carey

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

Christopher Hitchens

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Francoise Sagan

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Georges Bataille

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

George Whitefield

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

Gretel Ehrlich

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

Horace

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

George R. R. Martin

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Gene Tierney

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Ezra Pound

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

Jean Paul

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

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.

Ravi Zacharias

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

Mason Cooley

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

Mason Cooley

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Norman Borlaug

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Norman Cousins

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

P. J. O'Rourke

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

David Whyte

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

J. B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

I have times when I despair, and I cry. There are moments when I want to give up. But my husband needs me. So I get up for one more day.