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Quotes about Despair


Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Louisa May Alcott

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahil Gibran

The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm!

William Hamilton Gibson

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

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