Quotes on “despair”

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.