Comte de Lautreamont Quotes

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

He who has never hoped can never despair

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world