Top Despair Quotes
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan
Robert Frank 
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Haruki Murakami 
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Lawrence Welk 
Flannery O'Connor 
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander 
63% of people like this quote
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
61% of people like this quote
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
61% of people like this quote
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan
61% of people like this quote
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa
61% of people like this quote
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
60% of people like this quote
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
King Hussein I
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Popular Despair Authors
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