Top 23 Despond Quotes
#1. As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.
Alan Price
#2. No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Robert Smith Surtees
#3. Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.
Charles Dickens
#4. The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
#5. What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3
Karen Armstrong
#6. Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
Farley Mowat
#10. ... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
Herman Melville
#11. I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#12. We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
Deb Caletti
#13. And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.
Harlan Ellison
#14. I always feel inclined to blame Evangelist for some of the discomfort that poor Christian suffered in the Slough of Despond.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#15. I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].
William S. Burroughs
#16. We all know so much, and yet at the same time we don't know anything.
Grace Fiorre
#17. Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold ... has its natural and its market price.
David Ricardo
#18. By some analysts' estimates, the Cupertino company now pockets as much as 80 percent of the profits of the entire cellphone handset business.
Brent Schlender
#19. A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
Fay Weldon
#20. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Ausonius
#21. I can't afford to waste my time making money. - JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ
Anthony Robbins
#22. He's a moron," Blomkvist said. Vanger laughed, but he said: "That may be. But he's not the one who was sentenced by the court.
Stieg Larsson
#23. To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
