Quotes of: Despair Keyword

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

Hamish Bowles

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Robert Graves

'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.

Tim Crouch

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

Kristin Armstrong

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

Jason Alexander

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Edgar Allan Poe

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Emile M. Cioran

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Jeremy Taylor

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Martin McDonagh

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Jack Kemp

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Alain de Botton

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Albert Einstein

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Andrew Motion

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

Andrew Marvell

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy