Top 100 Despair Inspirational Quotes
#1. The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
Mason Cooley
#2. Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
Christina Baldwin
#3. What a blessing, what a treasured friend that despair turned out to be. It continually crushed my ongoing attempts at manufacturing optimism, slowing me down, leveling me so I could return to love and begin again and again.
Lori Cash Richards
#4. Either Conquer Your Despair Or Your Despair Will Conquer You!
Timothy Pina
#5. If you have a heartbeat ... you can have hope. If you have hope ... you have the tools that can bring you to a better tomorrow. These tools have the power to bring you out of all despair. Now keep your head up ... Because Anything Is Possible.
Timothy Pina
#6. Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places.
And they're just a matter of perspective.
What changed my perspective, was her.
Richie Singh
#8. The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.
David Richo
#9. Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
Mary Shelley
#11. The Rise And Fall Of Humanity ... depends on how we treat each other. It must be either kindness & love or hatred & despair. The roads are laid out in front of us. The decisions are entirely ours to make!
Timothy Pina
#12. Ben Says:The world is going through a very difficult time ... we can all do something special to better humanity and help those in despair get back on their feet. We can all make a difference.
Bullying Ben
By Timothy Pina
Timothy Pina
#14. A quick way to overcome your despair ... is to go out and help someone else overcome theirs!
Timothy Pina
#15. In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.
Winston Graham
#16. The Peace Panda: Let Us Try To Remember That For Our Very Short Existence On This Planet That We Are Here To Help Humanity And Not Hurt It. May We Help All Those We Meet That Are Suffering And In Despair ... That Even If It's With Prayer, Bring Hope To Those In Need!
Timothy Pina
#17. You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair ... will help all move forward to better, brighter days.
Timothy Pina
#18. They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Patricia Christian Punches
#19. Everyone will encounter despair in their lifetime. It takes a champion to overcome it. Be that champion!
Timothy Pina
#20. Somehow great leaders reach deep down in their souls and find the power within them to overcome despair. We must too ... if we want to accomplish great things in our lives!
Timothy Pina
#21. We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a second, a minute, an hour, and a year.. Will we die of despair? Or will we find that person who completes our life and enlightens our hearts?
Junior Isaac
#22. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!
Neal A. Maxwell
#24. Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. The difference between dreamers and great ones is that the great ones can always perceive beyond their dark clouds of despair and struggles to see the rainbow of hope in their lives.
Timothy Pina
#26. Be a ripple of hope to all in despair. It will change their lives and yours!
Timothy Pina
#27. I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take.
Timothy Pina
#28. Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and
whispered words, written long ago, words that
wriggled through the aged leather, trembled
beneath his touch. What lives and loves,
hopes and dreams, deaths and despair
these volumes held.
Ellen Read
#29. No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. There's only so far we can step backward in one day
Leisenring
#31. Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.
Debasish Mridha
#34. You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.
Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your
despair and let it lead you back to your truth.
Rachel C. Weingarten
#36. One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.
David P. Ingerson
#37. Great is a person that can laugh at their troubles ... for they have found an avenue to help them rise above their despair.
Timothy Pina
#38. To enjoy it again and again in those moments of joy and despair, I carry the beauty of your love in the hidden chamber of my heart.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer
William Shakespeare
#40. Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ... the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Grenville Kleiser
#41. If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
Philip Pullman
#42. Don't allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.
Edgar Allan Poe
#46. Free will ... is a double edged sword. It can either lead you down the roads of peace, joy and happiness or the roads of darkness and despair!
Timothy Pina
#47. The journey is made up of the most genuine and honest wonders of the mind, but also includes unfathomable sorrow and despair; yet, this is what makes up a journey as well as the human experience in entirety.
Forrest Curran
#48. Don't let anxiety & despair keep you down. Believe me, with the right help & treatment ... you can overcome anything!
Timothy Pina
#49. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.
Lolah Runda
#50. I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats.
Jules Verne
#51. Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
#52. Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
Meghna Pant
#54. Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.
Patrick Curry
#56. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Criss Jami
#57. Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!
Timothy Pina
#58. Despair will destroy you ... If you allow it too. Please ... don't let it destroy you!
Timothy Pina
#59. We all have a role to play. Don't despair at your own talents... Don't try to be better than anybody else. Just try to be better than yourself
Edgar J. Steele
#60. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.
Ann Brashares
#62. The history of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure, and enormously long lunch-breaks.
Douglas Adams
#63. It is a divine gift to find the light inside while in the midst of despair.
Leta B.
#64. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Super Star
#66. To all thinking about hurting yourself over your despair: it will get better if you allow it to ... it always does. Now please go out and find the help you need to get better!
Timothy Pina
#67. Truth ... Overcome the valley of your despair and it will lead you onto some of the greatest roads of your life!
Timothy Pina
#68. When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would have surpassed their failure.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#70. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.
Hannah Senesh
#71. For today ... Be kind to those in despair.
Your words, thoughts and prayers can be the difference between one's life or demise
Timothy Pina
#72. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
Aberjhani
#74. Say a prayer and be that friend to those in despair. Love and Kindness can help keep someone going over the edge if they're standing close to it!
Timothy Pina
#76. Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.
Pamela H. Hansen
#77. The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#78. Life -that complicated thing. One day, it took you to the perfection of happiness, with every meaning it might embrace. The other, it drove you to the limits of despair. The balance, however, was what made life either a paradise on earth, or a living hell.
Mariam Maarouf
#79. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
#80. To All Children In Our World (Young & Old) Don't let your despair hold you down. Rise above it & grab the rainbows that are ahead of you down the roads of your life.
Timothy Pina
#81. A person that is strong laughs even in the face of despair.
Ishio Yamagata
#82. It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
Matthew Fox
#83. If you can reach down deep inside and grab on to the hope and courage we all have installed in us to move forward down the roads of life ... it will help you grow stronger each day overcoming all despair.
Timothy Pina
#85. Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!-RVM
R.v.m.
#86. Despair will come and go but people that can overcome will last throught it. We must work with children to understand and deal with their despair ... instead of embarrassing them or hiding it from others. Empower your children today and watch them grow to excel in every way!
Timothy Pina
#87. Our brokenness can lead to building great things in our lives. Use your despair to help better humanity and never to hurt it
Timothy Pina
#90. Be not in despair; let those tears of sadness grow into flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Let your heart be an infant of hope not an adult of despair.
Debasish Mridha
#92. May all your tomorrows be sunny and bright ... filled with hope to conquer over all your despair.
Timothy Pina
#93. If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.
Max Lucado
#94. Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.
Noorilhuda
#95. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.
Paranjay Malkan
#97. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.
V. Raymond Edman
#98. At the time of destruction and despair hope for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Humanity is always at it's very best ... when it's children are all standing in unity to help all others that are in despair!
Timothy Pina
#100. He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.
James Joyce
