Quotes About Despair

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his world: a being without context, whose past had faded, whose future was bleak, an entity stripped of name, of meaning,of the whole of life except a temporarily beating heart.

PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart.

The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...

There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man

Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Failure has no friends.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears

In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves