Quotes About Despair

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

A world without hope, but no despair

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.

The most wretched have yet hope.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.