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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
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 liveIn 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 livein 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tomorrowthere'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
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 belike 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
Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes.
— Wesley Hill
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
I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
