quotations about despair
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
LEMONY SNICKET
The End
There is the void known as despair
A gateway upon an emptiness endless and vast ...
I have become as the wastelands
Of unending nothingness
Now shall the night things
Fill me with their whisperings
And the shadows reveal their wisdom
NILE
"Language of the Shadows", Ithyphallic
We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Thomas
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Heart of the Matter