Quotes About Despair

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.

I want to drown in my tears, And my tears are my prayers.

Madness is blackness.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I despair or get angry, I take the time to think about how I can best achieve that goal - and then I get to work.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.