Quotes about Despair
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
- Ellen Glasgow
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
- Heinrich Heine
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
- Samuel Johnson
I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
- CS Lewis
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
- St. Augustine
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
- Timothy Keller
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- Herman Melville
Without Christ there is no hope.
- Charles Spurgeon
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
- John Milton
Joy runs deeper than despair.
- Corrie Ten Boom
If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
- RC Sproul