Despair Quotes

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

A drowning man will clutch at straws.

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.

The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

There is no logical explanation for despair. You can no more reason yourself into cheerfulness than you can reason yourself an extra six inches in height. You can only be better prepared.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Damn, damn and double damn. Damn it backwards into a narrow space, with a sideorder of hellfire, and twice on a Sunday. DAAAAAAAMN.

Despair itself, if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.