Despair Quotes

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.