Despair Quotes

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If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. — Unknown Author
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee.… — Robert Herrick
Love is the life of our heart. According to it, we desire, rejoice, hope and despair, fear, take heart, hate, avoid things, feel sad, grow… — Charles Morgan
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. — Soren Kierkegaard
Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the… — Bonnie Tyler
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of… — Alfred Victor Vigny
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. — Unknown Author
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element… — Miguel De Unamuno
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal
A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears… — Robinson Jeffers
We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who… — Mother Teresa
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it… — Thomas Carlyle
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know… — Edward Fitzgerald
Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. — Sorin Cerin
Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair. — Unknown Author
The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and… — Emile M. Cioran
Love can hope where reason would despair. — Unknown Author
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them — Henri Frederic Amiel
We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed… — Bible

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