Quotes about Despair

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

God doesn't promise to keep the storm away, but He says He'll be with me through it. My faith won't protect me from the loss, but it will carry me and keep me from despair.~page 195

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

O Lord, Sula," she cried, "girl, girl, girlgirlgirl." It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.

The price of wealth, historically, has been blood, annihilation, death, and despair.

As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): "Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders.