Despair Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Despair.
Top Quotes
“Positive thinking”
“Four Noble Truths”
“The name of the Slough was Despond.”
“The nympholepsy of some fond despair.”
“No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.”
“Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.”
“Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.”
“Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.”
“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
“Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.”
“I can endure my own despair,
But not another’s hope.”
“Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!”
“For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Greater than that.”
“Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.”
“Human life begins on the far side of despair.”
“Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven.”
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.”
“Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.”
“[W]hat we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.”