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There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. — Henri Matisse

Uncle said, If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him. — Lewis Nordan

the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it. — Angela Elwell Hunt

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. — Bradley Joseph

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair. — Eileen Wilks

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Despair is part of love. — Andrew Solomon

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair. — Joe Orton

All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. — Sarah J. Maas

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. — Aleksandar Hemon

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. — Amos Bronson Alcott

All shall love me and despair. — J.R.R. Tolkien

God is a great healer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt. — Jeff VanderMeer

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road, — Lee Child

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C.V. Wedgwood

Make LOVE ... Not WAR!
Give Our World Peace And Not Despair — Timothy Pina

To enjoy it again and again in those moments of joy and despair, I carry the beauty of your love in the hidden chamber of my heart. — Debasish Mridha

Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating. — Philip K. Dick

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy. — Marty Rubin

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. — Lawrence Welk

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations — Rick Riordan

The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. — Emil Cioran

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. — John Donne

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. — Louis Finkelstein

Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time! — Timothy Pina

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. — Criss Jami

Some days simply lay on you like stones. — Patrick Rothfuss

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. — William Walsh

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. — Leonid Andreyev

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

Too much rouge is a sign of despair. — Arlene Dahl

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. — Ravi Zacharias

True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. — David Sedaris

Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. — Roland Barthes

Oy runs deeper than despair. — Corrie Ten Boom

Souls don't bleed. Light and darkness pour through the cracks until the vessel is empty. — Katie St. Claire

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle

We hang on by so little, he thought, and felt the full despair of knowing that. — Rachel Joyce

She became the bad company that she kept. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. — Dmitri Shostakovich

For all his youth, he seemed to be willing himself to the edge of an adult despair. — J.G. Ballard

Hate engenders loneliness and despair — Jocelyn Murray

That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down. — Jay Asher

By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair. — Amanda Lindhout

I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. — Anne Frank

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap. — Phillip W. Simpson

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy

Don't despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that's how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first. — Yasmin Mogahed

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? — Peter Kreeft

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. — Luc De Clapiers

A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; — Michael Chabon

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester — Lars Iyer

You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering. — Stevan V. Nikolic

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Charles Lamb

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope! — Greg Keyes

No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon

I keep my hope alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. — Richard E. Byrd

The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

O Suburbs of Despair
where nothing but the weather ever changes! — Dana Gioia

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse. — Emil Cioran

I cannot cure despair when people find comfort in it. — Paulo Coelho

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel De Montaigne

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. — Robert Breault

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair. — Audre Lorde

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado

Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them. — Marty Rubin

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love. — Joyce Cary

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair. — Anonymous

[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance. — Sandor Marai

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. — Jane Alexander

He who has never hoped can never despair — George Bernard Shaw

Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. — Matthew Arnold

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too. — Melina Marchetta

Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind - — James Dashner

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness. — LeeAnn Taylor

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. — Robert Greene

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere. — Leonard Cohen

The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare

If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born. — Irvin D. Yalom