Despair - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12042<![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028<![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029<![CDATA[All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12030<![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12031<![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12032<![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033<![CDATA[The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12034<![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035<![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12036<![CDATA[The man who lives only by hope will die with despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12037<![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038<![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12039<![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12040<![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12041<![CDATA[Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12017<![CDATA[But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12018<![CDATA[He who has never hoped can never despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12019<![CDATA[No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12020<![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021<![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022<![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023<![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12024<![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025<![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12026<![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12027<![CDATA[The name of the Slough was Despond. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12005<![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006<![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12007<![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008<![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12009<![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010<![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011<![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12012<![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12013<![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12014<![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015<![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12016<![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992<![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11993<![CDATA[In life you need either inspiration or desperation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11994<![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995<![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996<![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997<![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998<![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11999<![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12000<![CDATA[Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12001<![CDATA[I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12002<![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12003