Quote: Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. Author: A. Alvarez 1929-, British Critic, Poet, Novelist
Quote: So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Author: Antonin Artaud 1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist
Quote: Action is the antidote to despair. Author: Joan Baez 1941-, American Singer, Songwriter
Quote: Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Author: Georges Bataille 1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic
Quote: Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. Author: Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Quote: But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Despair gives courage to a coward. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: 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. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Author: Gunther Grass 1927-, German Author
Quote: Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader
Quote: Depression is the inability to construct a future. Author: Rollo May American Psychologist
Quote: Despair is the only genuine atheism. Author: Jean Paul
Quote: To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: The person who lives by hope will die by despair. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Life begins on the other side of despair. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. Author: John R. Stott 1921-, British Anglican clergyman and writer
Quote: Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Author: Miguel De Unamuno 1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer
Quote: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Author: Elie Wiesel 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer
Quote: Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit