Despair Quotes

You've got 150 years of fear and violence and pain soaked into those walls, but the overall mood there is one of despair. - Wentworth Miller

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. - Joan Baez

You know that he came into his uncle's money a little time ago, and after a first delirious outbreak, he has now relapsed into that dead heavy state of despair which is caused by having everything which one can wish for. How absurd are the ambitions of life when I think that I, who am fairly happy and as keen as a razor edge, should be struggling for that which I can see has brought neither profit nor happiness to him! - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. - Morris West

You don't have to be a size 2 or have a wonderful little waist, which helps you get over the despair of shopping. - Valerie Steele

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. - P. J. O'Rourke

You can't be motivated by the angry rhetoric of fear and despair and vengeance. - Michael Crespi

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. - Douglas MacArthur

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. - Edward Fitzgerald

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way. - Melissa Manchester