Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

Henry David Thoreau

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Jacqueline Carey

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

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.

Jean Paul

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jason Silva

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Eugene Ionesco

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

Gretel Ehrlich

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

Horace

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

Guy Gavriel Kay

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

Gillian Flynn

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

Francoise Sagan

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

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.

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

George Eliot

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

William Shakespeare

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

Janet Fitch

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

Christopher Hitchens

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

H. G. Wells

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

James Hillman

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

Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.

J. M. Coetzee

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

All shall love me and despair.

Joseph Brodsky

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

Mikhail Lermontov

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

P. J. O'Rourke

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