Despair Quotes

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As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom,… — Alain de Botton
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is… — Nhat Hanh
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair. — Ezra Taft Benson
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since.… — Penelope Mitchell
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. — Simon Van Booy
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to… — Noam Chomsky
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling,… — Paul Hawken
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls. — Unknown Author
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were… — Stephen Kinzer
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair. — John Perry Barlow
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and… — Jules Verne
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values… — Michael Leunig
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create… — Jason Alexander
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face… — John Ortberg
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. — Morris Gleitzman
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a… — Rich Cohen
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility. — Charles M. Blow
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. — Louis Finkelstein
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander

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