Despair Quotes · Page 43

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all…

— Bill Vaughan

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— William Shakespeare

“The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing”

— Dorothy Allison

“My subconscious rolls her eyes at me in despair and goes back to reading her dog-eared copy of Jane Eyre.”

— E.L. James

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

— Al Franken

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly…

— Salman Rushdie

“He’d stood across the street for several minutes, on the verge of making a move, but in the end he’d turned away…

— Jeremy Duns

“Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe?…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of…

— Anonymous

“You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world…

— Greg Baxter

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of…

— Theodore Kaczynski

“a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the…

— Jeff Shaara

“The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people…

— Eddie Izzard

“The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen. I don’t need…

— Samuel R. Delany

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines…

— Ernest Becker

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any…

— Viktor E. Frankl

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man…

— Alexandre Dumas

The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it…

— Newt Gingrich

The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his…

— Anonymous

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new…

— Joao Magueijo

the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit…

— Therese of Lisieux

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

— Chinua Achebe

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered…

— Yasmin Mogahed

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

— Hermann Hesse

“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.”

— Sara Baume

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

— Michel de Montaigne

You're faking, you're mistaken If you think that you could climb out of this hole

— Anonymous

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

— Wendell Berry

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

— Luc de Clapiers

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

— Theodore Parker

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

— Christopher Moore

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love…

— J.R. Ward

“Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.”

— Meghna Pant

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a…

— Yehuda Amichai