Despair Quotes

I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into the depths. When I let this hate free, I am almost overcome by it, but I cannot change this and do not really know how it could be otherwise. Let no one deprecate this, nor fool himself about the power of such hatred. Hate drives to reality. Hate is the father of the action. The way out of our defiled and desecrated house is through the command to hate Satan. Only so will be earn the right to search in the darkness for the way of love.In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers.

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the station, and which was hardly built with such loads in mind, sat a massive figure who appeared even more enormous by virtue of the thick overcoat he wore. Everything about him had the effect of extraordinary permanence and solidity: the deep bass voice; the tweed jacket, already, at that time, almost habitual; the appetite at dinner; and at night, the truly Cyclopean snoring, loud as a series of buzz saws, which frightened the other guests at my Chiemgau country house out of their peaceful slumbers.

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then..

~ Diana Gabaldon

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope.

~ Paul Bamikole

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

~ Robert Aickman

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

~ Henry Miller

Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...

~ Virginia Alison

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

~ Nikki Rosen

Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairMy heart yearns to be your heirBut my prayer remains unheardSpeak to me that I may hearAnd I will know that you can hearDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus , deep despair !Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairYour voice I wait to hearYour presence I seek to be nearThat I may not live with fearAnd I will always be your heirDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair! Deep despair, dear Lord , deep despairWhen expectations become desperationMay your might be my light That I may see you as my guideAnd do all things in your mightDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair !Deep despair, dear Lord , deep despairMay I know who You really areThat I may know who I am really areAs I stand between my me and where I want to beIn a world that seeks hinder all I have to be Deep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair!Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairWhen all hope is goneAnd all I have leave my handsMay I smile for what you have doneAs You overcome condemnation with redemptionDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The word of God gives comfort.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

~ H.p. Lovecraft

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

~ Warren G. Bennis

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

~ Paulo Coelho

Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

~ Lolah Runda

In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.

~ Laini Taylor

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

~ Roman Payne

And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.

~ Sara Keddar

Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening clouds. This fate has ever been so for those who proclaim their “Pride.” They have nothing to expect in the future but their fall.As for the Christian, he has nothing to fear but his falling into the pride of despair. If he avoids becoming despondent and retains his humility, he will receive the gift of hope which is its fruit. Where there is hope there is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

~ Joseph Pearce

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

~ Marty Rubin

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

~ John Geddes

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!from Gentleman Rankers

~ Rudyard Kipling

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

~ John Keats

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be greatly encouraged!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose.

~ Toba Beta

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

~ Colum Mccann

Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have vanished, leaving no way to persevere. To sink into the abyss that is despair is to suffer an existence far worse than death; therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally—hope. For life goes on, and we must not live in despair. We must not.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain, it is torture insurmountable.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

~ Siobhan Davis

Long have I dwelt forgotten hereIn pining woe and dull despair,This place of solitude and gloomMust be my dungeon and my tomb.

~ Anne Brontë

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

~ Josef Pieper

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

~ J.k. Rowling