Despair Quotes
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.
Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.
Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
