“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Never accept despondency. Never lose heart. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. — Anil Sinha 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
“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski 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
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
“Except as often as Wagner preached that they were collectively engaged in the "music of the future," and no matter how much… — Matthew Gallaway 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
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you… — Anonymous 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
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the… — Dean Koontz 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
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet. — Ezra Taft Benson 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
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency… — Robert Johnson 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 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)
