Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone de Beauvoir

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Lenny Bruce

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

Lenny Bruce

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Valerie Steele

You don't have to be a size 2 or have a wonderful little waist, which helps you get over the despair of shopping.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

John Cheever

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.

Lee Child

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

Natalie Merchant

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Max Lucado

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

Maureen Johnson

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)

Philip Yancey

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

Paullina Simons

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

Paul Valery

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Mary Oliver

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Leo Tolstoy

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Kate Morton

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

Lawrence Welk

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

John Keats

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Lisa Kleypas

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Leo Tolstoy

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Lord Byron

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Lord Byron

I learned to love despair.

Gordon Strachan

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

John Lewis

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

Susan Sontag

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Tanith Lee

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Victor Hugo

He who despairs is wrong.

Robert Frost

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Thomas F. Wilson

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

Tim Kaine

Despair is a natural emotion.

Sam Keen

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.