Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Despair makes priests and friars. — Martin Luther
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head… — Martin Luther
The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy.… — Emma Goldman
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a… — Friedrich Engels
There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by poor health and… — Thomas S. Monson
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he… — Thomas S. Monson
Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart. — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline… — Lenny Bruce
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and… — Michael Silverblatt
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. — Dmitri Shostakovich
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in… — Soren Kierkegaard
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does… — Soren Kierkegaard
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element… — William Lane Craig
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be… — David McCullough
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his… — Elwyn Brooks White
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the… — Andrew Solomon
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,… — Reinhold Messner
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them. — Benjamin Franklin
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. — Jose Bergamin

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