DESPAIR

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
Italian Proverbs

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Mark Twain

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
A. Alvarez

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
William Blake

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
Albert Camus

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William M. Thackeray

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Graham Greene

Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Jean Paul

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

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
John R. Stott

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
Ezra Pound

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
Edgar Allan Poe

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Miguel De Unamuno