Despair Quotes

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.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall think of it, always.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of 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 […]

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

He that stands upon a slippery place, makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. (King John)