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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

by George Eliot Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire read more

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

by Pierre Charron Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair

by Edmund Burke Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.

Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.

by John Milton Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, read more

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.

by Graham Greene Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
[Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
[Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]

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The world goes whispering to its own,
"This anguish pierces to the bone;"
And tender friends go read more

The world goes whispering to its own,
"This anguish pierces to the bone;"
And tender friends go sighing round,
"What love can ever cure this wound?"
My days go on, my days go on.

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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

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Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Despair Quotes,
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