Quotes about Despair

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable.

In the deepest slumber—no! In delirium—no! In a swoon—no! In death—no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

To labor is the lot of man below; and when the gods give respite, it is to let us suffer woe.