Despair quotations

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

- Jo Nesb?99

◆ Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

- Andrew Solomon99

◆ Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

- Elif Shafak99

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

- Woody Allen99

◆ How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

- Margaret Atwood99

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

- Irvin D. Yalom99

◆ You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

- Ian McEwan99

◆ When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

- J.D. Stroube99

◆ The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

- James Frey99

◆ Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

- May Sarton99

◆ Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.

- Jhonen Vasquez99

◆ 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.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ When we think of nothing our mind and heart are relaxed. But when we get hooked into a world of despair we're being drowned in a dark ocean of consciousness.

- Jeremy Limn99