Quotes about Despair

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants a — Mahatma Gandhi
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depr — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such i — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed hi — Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the be — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror o — Cassandra Clare
Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've — Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to — J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. — Jo Nesbø
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometim — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even — Elif Shafak
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. — Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes — Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down. — Anthony T. Hincks
The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping peopl — Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that a — Sebastian K. Young, I Had Every Excuse to Fail, but I Chose None