Despair Quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. As always, we take up again where we left off.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. (“Hamlet”)

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.