Despair Quotes

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, and manage it against despairing thoughts.”

“Humor is a response to despair.”

“I wish to God that I had never been born.”

“I was stunned and my spirit seemed to be in a stupor as I asked God why He had not let me be born a man.”

“Every night when I go to sleep, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.”

“I am cast into a sea of cares.”

“Despair has its own calms.”

“How can you be a rock in a world of despair, if you have no rock to stand on?”

“I have a horror of life.”

“Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

“I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.”

“The horror! The horror!”

“I leave it all in a frightful welter. I can't see a single man who knows how to govern.”

“In place of a true-believer faith, you have a true-believer despair.”

“And it is boring and it is sad, and there is no one to give a hand to.”

“Humor is the last resort of the doomed.”

“What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”

“This is Baltimore. The gods will not save you.”

“The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.”