I leave you the best phrases of despair of great authors such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Søren Kierkegaard, Henry David Thoreau, J.R.R. Tolkien and many more.
You may also be interested in these quotes of hope in life.
-Don't you dare threaten a person who has nothing more to lose.-Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
-Hope is the power to be joyful in desperate circumstances.-G.K. Chesterton.
-The desperate often succeed because they have nothing to lose.-Jodi Picoult.
-What we usually call despair, is just our aching hunger for hope.-George Eliot.
-The most common form of despair is not being who you are.-Soren Kierkegaard.
-Life begins on the other side of despair.-Jean-Paul Satre.
-The person who lives of hope, will die of despair.-Italian proverb.
-In the world of dogma, you free yourself the moment you decide to go to hell.-Aniekee Tochukwu Ezequie.
-Despair instills courage in the coward.-Thomas Fuller.
-Do you know what to do when you can't take it anymore? It changes.-Alberto Moravia.
-Hope often comes in helplessness.-J.R.R Tolkien.
-Never teach despair, instead, teach hope.-Abraham Lincoln.
-In despair, human beings become animals.-Dan Brown.
-If desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I want.-Suzanne Collins.
-Despair can become the mother of success.
-Despair is the smallest of our mistakes.-Count de Lautréamont.
-Despair is the raw material of drastic change.-William Burroughs.
-Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.-Aaron Ben.
-Desperation can make a person do amazing things.-Veronica Roth.
-Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.-Alain de Botton.
-The screams begging for help are frequently inaudible.-Tonny Robbins.
-Being desperate is sometimes the best thing that can happen to you, because people often start to act when they can't take the pain anymore..
-My life is a perfect cemetery of buried hopes.-L.M. Montgomery, Anne.
-My soul is full of beer and it is sadder than all the dead Christmas trees in the world.-Charles Bukowski.
-The bravest thing I have done in my life, was to continue when I just wanted to die.-Juliette Lewis.
-People need motivation to do anything, I don't think human beings learn anything without despair.-Jim Carrey.
-What we call our despair is often just the aching lust for hope.-George Eliot, Middlemarch.
-No medicine cures what happiness cannot.-Gabriel García Márquez.
-What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.-Gabriel García Márquez.
-You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot prevent spring from coming.-Pablo Neruda.
-It is not true that people stop chasing dreams because they get old, they start to get old because they stop chasing dreams.-Gabriel García Márquez.
-There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.-Heinz Guderian.
-I'm not sure what the future holds, but I know I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate.-Nicole Kidman.
-Desperate affairs call for desperate measures.-Horatio Nelson.
-People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate.-George Carlin.
-When the pains come, spies do not come alone, but in battalions.-William Shakespeare.
-How bitter it is to look at happiness through the eyes of another man.-William Shakespeare.
-It is true that better days have been seen.-William Shakespeare.
-Blow, blow, winter wind, you are not as cruel as the ingratitude of man.-William Shakespeare.
-The world is so bad that crabs make prey where eagles dare not perch.-William Shakespeare
-Give until it hurts. That is the true meaning of love.-Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet arrived, we only have today.-Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-Nobody saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one should.-Buddha.
-There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no bond like madness, there is no torrent like greed. -Buddha.
-Buddha says there are two types of suffering: the type that leads to more suffering and the type that ends suffering.-Terry Tempest Williams.
-If we never experience the cold of a dark winter, it is unlikely that we will ever celebrate the warmth of a bright summer day.-Antón Martín.
-Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs as much to the good life as optimism, certainty and reason.-Alain De Botton.
-Despair makes up for the little stealth.-N. K. Jemisin.
-The strength of your mind determines the depth of your despair ... The weaker the mind, the deeper the despair.-Mehmet Murat Ildan.
-Despair is not an evidence of hard work, it is a sign of a lack of faith.-Constance Friday.
-Despair makes men bold.-Jocelyn Murray.
-Weakness is what brings ignorance, racism, homophobia, despair, cruelty, brutality. All of these things will keep society chained with one foot nailed to the ground.-Henry Rollins.
-Desperation is like stealing from the mob, you have a high chance of getting the wrong attention.-Douglas Horton.
-The mass of men lead lives of quiet despair, what is called resignation is confirmed as despair.-Henry David Thoreau.
-There is a real sense of despair when you grow up in poverty.-Ray LaMontagne.
-We all need money but there are degrees of desperation.-Anthony Burgess.
-Every age longs for a more beautiful world; The deeper the despair and depression about the present, the more intense the longing.-Johan Huizinga.
-Despair is a fact of life in many poor and overcrowded countries.-Anthony Lewis.
-In life you need inspiration or despair.-Tony Robbins.
-I am one of those people who flourish with deadlines, nothing brings inspiration faster than despair.-Harry Shearer.
-Lottery tickets are superimposed on desperation.-Douglas Coupland.
-Despair is sometimes as powerful and inspiring as genius.-Benjamin Disraeli.
-Today men lead lives of noisy despair.-James Thurber.
-There is nothing like despair to sharpen your sense of focus.-Thomas Newman.
-You cannot separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.-Bamigboye Olurotimi.
-A person who lives in faith is not bound by hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.-Kilroy J. Oldster.
-Despair does not create empathy or clarify thought.-Joseph Fink.
-Desperate people do desperate things, you can't be one of them. You must be better.-Rachel Caine.
-Do not let your thoughts of frustration lead you to make decisions based on despair.-Owens DeWayne.
-Anyone who is desperate or just will agree that there is comfort in routine.-Simon Van Booy.
-Despair is often more powerful than inspiration.-Debasish Mridha.
-Education without inspiration is only a recipe for despair.-Ernest Agyemang Yeboah.
-If the rich cannot pay for hope, you cannot expect the poor to pay for despair.-David Mitchell.
-Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to feel lonely or desperate.-Bryant McGill.
-Excessive desire is a form of despair and a declaration that something is missing.-Bryant McGill.
-A big part of dealing with despair is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.-Brian Michael Good.
-Courage comes from the stomach, everything else is despair.-Charles Bukowski.
-Despair will lead you to do things that will never make you feel whole again and even lose what you are desperate for.-Laura Miller.
-This is all a desperate affair. So we better not worry about tomorrow, it probably won't come.-J.R.R Tolkien.
-Despair is the dampness of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John donne.
-This is not despair, because despair is for those who see the end when in doubt, we do not do that.-J.R.R Tolkien.
-The prince will never come; that we all know. Also, maybe sleeping beauty has already died.-Anne Rice.
-The greatest risk of all, losing yourself, can occur silently, as if you were nothing in the world.-Soren Kierkegaard.
-Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen to you, the worst that can happen to you is losing your will to live.-Jo Nesbo.
-Despair is the price you pay for your conscience. Look deep into life, you will always find despair.-Irvin D. Yalom.
-When I despair, I remember that throughout history, truth and love have always won. There have been oppressors and murderers who seem invincible, but eventually they fall. Always think about it.-Mahatma Gandhi.
-The work of an artist is not to fall into despair, it consists in looking for a cure for the emptiness of life.-Woody Allen.
-The only real laugh comes from despair.-Groucho Marx.
-A son can bear the loss of his father with equanimity, but the loss of his inheritance can make him despair.-Niccolo Machiavelli.
-There are so many who suffer in silence. Not because they don't yearn to stop, but because they have tried and realized that nobody cares.-Richelle E. Goodrich.
-She wondered if hope was much more difficult than despair.-Patricia Briggs.
-When a man is desperate it means that he still believes in something.-Dmitri Shostakovich
-The heart has no tears to shed, only blood, and bleeds away and silently.-Harriet Beeche Stowe.
-There is only one great evil in the world today. Despair.-Evelyn Waugh.
-Most of my patients were not believers, if not those who had lost their faith.-C.G. Jung.
-I must lose myself doing something, before despair consumes me.-Alfred Tennyson.
-Hope was an instinct that could only kill the rational thought of man. An animal has never known despair.-Graham Greene.
-Who promised that? Who Said There Must Be Good News? -Clive Barker.
-As long as he was a merry Hobbit, he needed no hope as long as despair was postponed.-J.R.R Tolkien.
-I have coveted everything, and nothing has pleased me.-Guy de Maupassant.
-Hope is no less realistic than despair, it is still our choice whether to live in the light or lie in the dark.-Rick Yansey.
-It is difficult to write a paradise when everything indicates that you must write an apocalypse.-Ezra Pound.
-It's funny how despair can soon turn into an old friend.-Jacqueline Carey.
-Courage is not to stop being afraid or feeling despair. It is the strength to continue despite these, no matter how great they have become.
-When all else is lost, the future will always remain.-Christian Bovee.
-Retirement and loneliness are the main causes of despair.-Bell Hooks.
-Despair is a free man, while hope is a slave.-L.M Montgomery.
-Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value accomplishment. Because I've been alone, I value love.-Leonard Nimoy.
-It is necessary to fall in love, even if it is as an excuse for all the despair that you will feel anyway.-Albert Camus.
-Never despair, not even for not despairing.-Franz Kafka.
-We cannot stop believing in humanity, because we are also human.-Albert Einstein.
-Despair often begets disease.-Sophocles.
-He who dies in despair, has lived in vain.-Theodor Adorno.
-Comedy is an escape from despair, never from reality, close to faith.-Christopher Fry.
-There is no love in life, without despair in it.-Albert Camus.
-Despair is the suffocation of hell, like joy the serenity of heaven.-John Donne.
-Action is the cure for despair.-Joan Baez.
-Only he who was capable of feeling the worst despair, can feel the greatest happiness.-Alexandre Dumas.
-The man dies in helplessness, but the spirit in ecstasy.-Honore de Balzac.
-There was once a castle, called the castle of doubt, its owner, the giant despair.-John Bunyan.
-Despair is typical of those who do not see the causes of evil, who do not know what to do, those who do not fight.-Vladimir Lennin.
-The road that is built with hope is more pleasant to the traveler than a road built with desperation, even if they both go to the same destination.-Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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