Quotes about Despair
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
— John Bunyan
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
— Joseph Addison
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
— Victor Hugo
Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
— John F. Kennedy
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
— Richard Paul Evans
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
— Samuel Beckett
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
— Graham Greene
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
— Charles Spurgeon
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
— Aristotle