| Author |
Quotes |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die |
| Anne Sophie Swetchine | The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Despair is the conclusion of fools. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Despair ruins some, presumption many. |
| Charles Baudelaire | It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. |
| Elie Wiesel | Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;" And tender friends go sighing round, "What love can ever cure this wound?" My days go on, my days go on. |
| 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. |
| Francis Bacon | It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. |
| George Eliot | But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
| George Eliot | There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. |
| George Eliot | What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
| Henry David Thoreau | A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. |
| Italian Proverb | The man who lives only by hope will die with despair. |
| Joan Baez | Action is the antidote to despair. |
| John Bunyan | The name of the Slough was Despond. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! |
| Joseph Addison | I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. |
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