despair Quotes

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:hope humanity despair

“There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:despair

“Me miserable! which way shall I flyInfinite wrath, and infinite despair?Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;And, in the lowest deep, a lower deepStill threatening to devour me opens wide,To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

topic:hell despair misery

“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

topic:despair

“When shoes and clothes and food, when even hope is gone, we'll have the rifle.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:violence despair

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

topic:wisdom despair

“She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear... but now she saw that she had donned them after all.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

topic:fear despair

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth religion despair comfort

“it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:despair

“there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

topic:despair

1
2
3
4

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI