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Quotes About Despair

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
~ Derek Landy
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
~ Philip Sidney
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
~ Dennis Lehane
Hope opens doors where despair closes them.
~ James Keller
I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.
~ Richard Armitage
People don't cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.
~ Martha Beck
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
~ Dante Alighieri
You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?
~ Stephen King
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
~ William Shakespeare
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
~ Thomas Hobbes
When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.
~ Auliq-Ice
. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.
~ John Connolly, The Infernals
Some stories end in despair, some begin there
~ Marty Rubin
He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.
~ Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.
~ William P. Barker
You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us
~ Saleem Sharma
Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.
~ Jim George
..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.
~ Shannon Hale, Forest Born