Despair Quotes

Your thoughts and your words define your life. Think positively and affirm positive words to enrich your life positively.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

New hope, new adventure.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.
Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.