Quotes about Despair

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

What we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.

This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible," a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

The dead were to be envied. It was the living who had to suffer from loneliness and distrust.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

You do not defeat an enemy by just getting past him. You defeat fear by growing in faith. You defeat despair by growing in hope. You defeat death by growing in life. True life is only lived by those who no longer live for themselves, but for The King, and do all things for His sake and for those He gave His life for.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.