Quotes About Despair

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.