Quotes about Despair
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
— Robert Brault
To dispair is to turn your back on God.
— LM Montgomery
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…
— LM Montgomery
Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
— LM Montgomery
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.
— LM Montgomery
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." -Anne of green gables
— LM Montgomery
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
— Mark Twain
Hope is a better friend than despair.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
— John Milton
The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There can be glory in failure and despair in success.
— Abraham Lincoln
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
— James Hayford