Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell. — Michael Josephson
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. — Martin Luther
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — John Calvin
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and… — Thomas Merton
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; — Anne Frank
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on… — Steven Pressfield
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and… — Chris Hedges
This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another… — Tim Maleeny
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no… — Unknown Author
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where… — Margaret Thatcher
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,… — Werner Heisenberg
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything… — Gore Vidal
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In… — Steven Erikson
Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely,… — Esther Hicks
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. — Luc de Clapiers
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is… — Robert Fripp
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you… — Rob Bell
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to… — Rob Bell
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd… — Thomas Nagel
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only… — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and… — William Dunbar
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug

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