Feeling Despair Quotes

#1. Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

Susannah McCorkle

#2. Hate is nothing but a feeling that consumes us all in a moment of despair and sorrow; a moment of regret and envy.

Joan Ambu

#3. He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in comprehending and feeling in himself the general consciousness of mankind, he would collapse with a curse on existence; for

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Cedric Richmond

#5. I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair.

Sally Brampton

#6. She was so endearing, so indomitable, that Gabriel was wrenched with a feeling he'd never known before, as if all the extremes of joy and despair had been compressed into some new emotion that threatened to crack the walls of his heart.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers ... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness ...

Alain De Botton

#8. If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Dolly Parton

#9. As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Robin Gibb

#10. Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Marshall McLuhan

#11. I run because I enjoy it - not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run - not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

Amby Burfoot

#12. If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty ... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in [her] chest. She'd been feeling this, this black rip, this loud tear, within her.

Dave Eggers

#13. My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. There is nothing that will add depth to despair like the feeling of deserving it.

David Levithan

#15. To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Sarah Kane

#16. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#18. My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity ... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Zadie Smith

#19. I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.

Jenny Han

#20. Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#21. The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

John Cheever

#22. In him, she saw the definition of strength. It didn't mean never showing a crack, it didn't mean not feeling fear or despair. It meant going on anyway.

Maisey Yates

#23. The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

Damon Lindelof

#24. The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

Paulo Coelho

#26. What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

Michael Jackson

#27. The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

Wayne Dyer

#28. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

#29. It's with a feeling of despair that I return her to his arms. I want him to be angry. I want him to challenge me. Because then the truth will be out and I won't have to hide my feelings. But he trusts me too much to suspect me. And I love him too much to hurt him.

Amy Plum

#30. He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

Nora Roberts

#31. Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

Francis Bacon

#32. I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

Jessica Sorensen

#33. Iving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

Shannon Hale

#34. So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.

S. Jae-Jones

#35. It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.

Peter Benson