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Despair (577 quotes) It is necessary to fall in love. If only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Votes: 4 Albert Camus.
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Quotations
Life begins on the other side of despair. — 2 likes |
Do not hope without despair, or despair without hope. — 2 likes |
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. — 1 likes |
There is not love of life without despair about life. — 1 likes |
Despair is anger with no place to go. — |
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. — |
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — |
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — |
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. — |
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me. — |
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. — |
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. — |
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. — ‐ Madame Bovary |
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. — |
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. — |
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. — |
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — |
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. — |
Happiness is a myth invented by the devil to make us despair. — |
Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy. — |
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. — |
Despair swallows up cowardice. — |
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. — |
Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. — |
Latin Quotes
Never despair. Nil desperandum! — 29 likes |
Quotes in Verse
I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon. — |
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. — |
Ancient Greek
What do I gain from living? I have no country, no home, no relief from my troubles. Τι μοι ζην κέρδος; Ούτε μοι πατρίς ούτ’ οίκος έστιν ούτ’ αποστροφή κακών. — ‐ Medea 1 likes |