Quotes About Despair

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

It's important to note that there's no such thing as perfect happiness, just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. This is why trying to be perfect is an exercise in futility.

Everyone has a way out a way to escape a place to go to be free from thoughts, free from pain stress, despair, mine is a permanent escape problems too deep, to be temporary scars too rough to be memories memories too dark to be remembered.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Love hurts. Boys lie. Friends Cry. People Die. Parents yell. You always try. You're never good enough and you don't know why.

Have you ever felt so alone and nothing makes sense? Well thats how I feel right nowI feel like I'm facing everything myself, with nothing but tears and a fake smile

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.