Despair Quotes
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.
Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
“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 power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are
I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.
Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.
The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
