Despair Quotes

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

People become artists out of despair.

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Despair has its own calms.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.