Despair Quotes
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs
He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.
Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.
Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai
The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.
Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.
Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."-white oleander
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!
Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.
Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.
But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.
The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.
my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.
Death finds you in such strange poses. How long can you cry, until the rivers gone and dry.
How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?
Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.
In the midst of uncertainty, Doubt stealthy in. And in the face of Doubt, One must hold steadfast to Hope.
The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.
The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.
Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…
Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.
