Despair Quotes
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.
And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.
You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
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The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.
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
I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.