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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Quotes by William Dunbar

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Quotes by William Congreve

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Quotes by Walker Percy

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

Quotes by Vikas Swarup

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

Quotes by Val McDermid

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Quotes by Tokugawa Ieyasu

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

Quotes by Tibor Fischer

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Quotes by Terry Southern

In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Quotes by Rollo May

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

Quotes by Rollo May

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Quotes by Rollo May

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Quotes by Robert Stack

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Quotes by Robert Greene

When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

Quotes by Rich Cohen

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Quotes by Raymond Williams

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Quotes by R. D. Laing

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Quotes by Pope John Paul II

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Quotes by Peggy Noonan

As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.

Quotes by Paul Scholes

The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.

Quotes by Paul Hawken

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

Quotes by Nathan Wolfe

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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

Quotes by Michael Trucco

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Quotes by Menander

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

Quotes by Max Jacob

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Quotes by Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Quotes by Matthew Arnold

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

Quotes by Mark Waid

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Quotes by Marie Curie

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

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

Quotes by Louis Finkelstein

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

Quotes by Lawrence Welk

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.

Quotes by Laurie Anderson

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

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Quotes by Joseph Barbera

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Quotes by John Perry Barlow

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Quotes by John Cheever

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Quotes by John Bunyan

Action is the antidote to despair.

Quotes by Joan Baez

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.

Quotes by Jasmila Zbanic

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

Quotes by Jason Alexander

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Quotes by J. B. Priestley

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Quotes by Isaac Rosenberg

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Quotes by Hussein of Jordan

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Quotes by Hector Berlioz

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

Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Quotes by George Will

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Quotes by Frederic Chopin

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Quotes by Francis Parker Yockey

For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

Quotes by Fabrizio Moreira

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

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

Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Quotes by Emile Lahoud

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.

Quotes by Elmer Davis

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Quotes by Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Quotes by Denis Kearney

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Quotes by David Mallet

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Quotes by Comte de Lautreamont

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Quotes by Cedric Richmond

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

Quotes by Bruce Dickinson

Despair has its own calms.

Quotes by Bram Stoker

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

Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Quotes by Barry Hannah

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

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.

Quotes by Antonin Artaud

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Quotes by Andrew Motion

There's always hope, and there's always despair.

Quotes by Andrea Riseborough

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Quotes by Anatole France

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Quotes by Aleksandar Hemon

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