despair Quotes

“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.”

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

topic:hope despair

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:loneliness despair

“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:virtue patience despair

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:loneliness despair

“No reflection was to be allowed now: not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:past sadness despair

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