Sad Despair Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We are inside soft, sweet and pure white despair.

Eiji Mikage

#3. There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

Johnathan Jena

#4. Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt ... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Comte De Lautreamont

#5. I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#6. Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Carmen DeSousa

#7. I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

Holly Black

#8. Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.

Tom Robbins

#9. Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"
A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it?

Matthew Jobin

#10. Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.

Kobo Abe

#11. I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me!

Catherynne M Valente

#12. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

#13. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the edge and others manage to stay sometimes sad in a safe clearing far from the cliffs. Once you cross over, the rules all change.

Andrew Solomon

#15. Allie watched them and felt a pang of fleeting despair for the sad times of the world. Things had stretched apart There was no glue at the center of things anymore. She had never seen the ocean, never would.

Stephen King

#16. That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down.

Jay Asher

#17. She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had happened. Yes, Allah is expecting her to be patient and keep on marching forward

Diyar Harraz

#18. Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold

#19. When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan