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Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

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

Yeah," sighed Jane. "I suppose. But that's the problem. I can cope with despair. But hope keeps fucking me up. — Adam Baker

The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens

In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst. — Taya Kyle

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late. — Sidney Sheldon

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Aidan Chambers

There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel. — Franz Kafka

Someone should have warned me about love's dark underbelly, about the rejection and despair. — Victoria Scott

What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other's despair into hope?
You yourself must change it. — Adrienne Rich

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony. — Julian Barnes

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch

To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe

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

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't. — Paulo Coelho

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. — Ian McEwan

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven. — Jean Ingelow

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. — Nicci French

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer. — Lord Byron

That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events. — William Faulkner

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank
but that's not the same thing. — Joseph Conrad

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions. — Harriet Lerner

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. — Laurie Anderson

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice. — Woody Allen

DOING is often God's remedy for despair. — John Piper

What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute. — Aberjhani

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anna Quindlen

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is. — Dennis Garvin

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. — Marianne Williamson

There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. So — Haruki Murakami

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair. — Onyi Anyado

America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help determine our greatness! — Timothy Pina

It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair. — K.W. Jeter

I don't do it!" I sobbed in despair; "I don't save or shield them! It's far worse than I dreamed - they're lost!" VIII — Henry James

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought. — Diana Wynne Jones

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan]. — Vladislav Tamarov

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. — Elton John

and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of the night you see the stars. — Jenny Markas

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
— John Cleese

Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good. — Carol Shields

There's only so far we can step backward in one day — Leisenring

But I am alive still. Now what's to be done? what's to be done? he said in despair. — Leo Tolstoy

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — Haruki Murakami

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom. — Ashly Lorenzana

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'! — T.F. Hodge

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. — Anne Rice

Humanity is always at it's very best ... when it's children are all standing in unity to help all others that are in despair! — Timothy Pina

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage. — Ted Koppel

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there. — Terry Pratchett

Tomorrow
there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow. — Edgar Guest

For today ... Be kind to those in despair.
Your words, thoughts and prayers can be the difference between one's life or demise — Timothy Pina

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. — William Shakespeare

All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. — Tibor Fischer

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries. — Mason Cooley

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? — Walker Percy

Pain can drive you to a sense of hopelessness and despair, or it can drive you to God. It's your choice. — Jan Northington

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time. — Karen Marie Moning

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

He's the light that guided me to where I am now, out of the darkness, out of despair. — Faith Sullivan

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. — C.S. Lewis

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

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee. — Fay Weldon

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world. — Peace Pilgrim

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement. — Michele Bachmann

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field. — Yehuda Amichai

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this. — Catherine Fisher

There's nothing better than an elegant cry of despair. — William Goyen

In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love's madness, swinging from ecstasy to despair in one wild second. — Bernard Cornwell

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. — Saul Alinsky

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

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father's eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way. — Diyar Harraz

Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes. — Wesley Hill

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now. — Lee Child

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran

I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner. — Michael Trucco

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope, — Todd Snider

That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss. — Philip Kerr

The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go. — Rachel Joyce

I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. — Simone De Beauvoir

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. — T. S. Eliot

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void. — Glenn Beck

If I had learned anything from this past year, it is that despair is love's fiercest enemy. — Susan Meissner

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair. — Angelus Silesius