Quotes About Despair

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

No hope no action.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that's probably why they're the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

False hope is better than no hope at all.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.