Despair Quotes
A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.
In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.
You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!
Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.
It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more, But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life.
Need will send you even into the arms of your enemy
She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.
History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase
The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.
...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.
... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.
Alan McCluskey“Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.
If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…
What, whom we put our hope in determines our stability!" EL
Do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered.
But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.
Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.
I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.
In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.
When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.
..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.
What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?
How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
The road of doubt leads to the dead-end of despair. Time to change directions!" HS/el
Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.
For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed...I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.
All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.
...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you conquer despair, no deeper pit remains to trap you.
Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time, " said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.
