“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
“There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.” — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“A knock on my office door interrupted the despondency of my broodings. “Come in!” I called, removing the countenance I currently wore… — Gabriellyn Gidman Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
![“Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” quote by Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af7/charles-spurgeon-82_despondency_ready-to-halt-poor-fearing-and-thou-mrs_647374.jpg)
