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Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. By Geraldine Brooks

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair. By Marty Rubin

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others. By Thomas Aquinas

Action is the antidote to despair. By Joan Baez

Despair is part of love. By Andrew Solomon

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. By Luc De Clapiers

Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop. By Franz Kafka

The misery of the moment. By Lailah Gifty Akita

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. By Bryan Procter

Despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light. By Jim Berg

I can not stop despair but I can stand up & speak truthfully against it to make it uncomfortable every time it knocks on my door!Bullying Ben By Timothy Pina

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house. By Marian Keyes

Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair: By William Shakespeare

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. By Amos Bronson Alcott

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. By Yann Martel

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up. By William James

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope. By Dean Koontz

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. By Franz Kafka

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. By Al Alvarez

Despair is the conclusion of fools. By Benjamin Disraeli

I must have faith, but having faith is hard, so very much harder than despair. By Robin Lafevers

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. By Ravi Zacharias

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. By Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ... By Martin Seligman

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. By Mary Renault

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. By Austin O'malley

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. By Dean Koontz

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is. By Amanda Craig

Oy runs deeper than despair. By Corrie Ten Boom

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. By James Hillman

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. By Flannery O'connor

Everyone will encounter despair in their lifetime. It takes a champion to overcome it. Be that champion! By Timothy Pina

Don't give up, cause despair sucks By Rick Ridgeway

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel. By Neil Gaiman

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this. By Catherine Fisher

What is it in our world that breeds such howling despair? By Rene Denfeld

Despair young and never look back, By Samuel

If you response to every demand, you will be in despair. By Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity. By Mahatma Gandhi

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness. By Donald E. Williams Jr.

These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay. By Roberto Bolano

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good ... By Hadewijch

Lord ... please help us overcome our despair,So we can help others overcome theirs.Amen! By Timothy Pina

Despair is easy, or at least low cost. By Rebecca Solnit

Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands. By Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. By C.s. Lewis

A quick way to overcome your despair ... is to go out and help someone else overcome theirs! By Timothy Pina

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. By William Shakespeare

Worse than despair,Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life begins on the other side of despair. By Jean-Paul Sartre

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? By Mehmet Murat Ildan

Despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams By H.p. Lovecraft

What do you do when you despair, and there isn't an August Rain to drown your sorrow? By Sherry Thomas

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair. By Joe Orton

DOING is often God's remedy for despair. By John Piper

The Sorrow and the Pity, By Charles Kaiser

Sadness of love without release. By Jonathan Safran Foer

Find strength from the despair that troubles your world. We were all made to endure all things. Be Strong Be Resilient! By Timothy Pina

There is nothing that will add depth to despair like the feeling of deserving it. By David Levithan

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs. By Georgette Leblanc

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull. By Marya Hornbacher

Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again. By William Boyd

Desperation seeps through the seams of fear. By T.a. Cline

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. By Soren Kierkegaard

Despair often breeds disease. By Sophocles

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair. By Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise By John Cleese

Hope can be as crippling as despair. By Marty Rubin

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. By Hannah More

Those who despair of life are not long for it. By Elizabeth Janeway

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through. By Christina Baldwin

The most common despair is ... not choosing, or willing, to be oneself ... [but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself. By Soren Kierkegaard

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. By Lawrence Welk

Anger is really disappointed hope. By Erica Jong

Sorrow is dangerous. By Kelly Barnhill

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope. By Alain De Botton

I'm in the depths of despair! (Anne of Green Gables) By L.m. Montgomery

I cannot cure despair when people find comfort in it. By Paulo Coelho

My only hope lies in my despair. By Jean Racine

My suffering left me sad and gloomy. By Yann Martel

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. By Richard Yates

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. By Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Yes we all have despair but we also all have the power within us to overcome it and to help others overcome it to. By Timothy Pina

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud. By Austin O'malley

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. By Jonathan Kozol

I must choose between despair and Energy--I choose the latter. By John Keats

Sorrow is sorrow. By Lailah Gifty Akita

I learned to love despair. By Lord Byron

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. By Mia Farrow

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton

I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats. By Jules Verne

Perhaps despair is the only human sin. By Gretel Ehrlich

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. By Robert Jensen

Love and despair go hand in hand. By Barry Hannah

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope, By Todd Snider

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. By Mason Cooley

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. By Jeffrey Eugenides

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations. By Laura Lee Guhrke

Loss of hope is root of distress. By Lailah Gifty Akita