Despair quotes

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Hope is harmony. A just heart, moving toward the light. That is all. Despair is hope's polar opposite. It is messy and confusing. Despair swallows up love, hatred, and everything else. Because not knowing where you will end up is despair. Despair is what even you cannot predict. Only despair's unpredictability will save you from a boring future.

- Junko Enoshima

Despair is contagious. Everyone catches it.

- Junko Enoshima

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Despair often breeds disease.

- Sophocles

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

- Joan Baez

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

- Elie Wiesel

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

- Miguel De Cervantes

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

- Loretta Young

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

- Emile M. Cioran

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

- John Bunyan

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

- Ben Okri

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.

- John Cheever

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

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

- Joseph Addison

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

- Matthew Arnold

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

- Philip Massinger

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

- Alexandre Dumas

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

- John Donne

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

- Joseph Brodsky

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

- Avi Arad

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

- William Dunbar

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

- Franz Kafka

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

- Menander

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair has its own calms.

- Bram Stoker

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

- R. D. Laing

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

- Marshall McLuhan

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

- Elie Wiesel

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

- James Weldon Johnson