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Quotes About Despair

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.
~ Groucho Marx
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
~ Martin Luther
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.
~ Israel Zangwill
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
~ Bob Dylan
HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Where there is hope, there is no despair.
~ Gene Tierney
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
~ Henri Nouwen
Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
~ Rudolph Fisher
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
~ Charles G. Dawes
Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
~ Jane Austen
Hope hurt more than the cold.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum
I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
~ Yuna
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
~ Lu Xun
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope
~ Oscar Wilde
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
~ Austin O'Malley
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
~ Martin Marty
But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.
~ Michael Grant
Anything that kills hope is a sin
~ Gayle Forman
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
~ Bill Vaughan