Despair Quotes
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.
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
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.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)
There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.