Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using… — Yehuda Berg
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To… — Rebecca Solnit
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. — Leo Buscaglia
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me… — David Leavitt
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past,… — SebastiAn
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. — Kate Morton
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson… — Mary Baker Eddy
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was… — Dani Shapiro
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: — Alexander Cockburn
Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize… — Unknown Author
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .… — Samuel Beckett
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer… — Ellen Key
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. — John Milton
It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails. — Stanley Hoffmann
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. — Frederick The Great
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Aidan Chambers
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Herbert Read
I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try… — Michael Novak
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;… — William Shakespeare
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find… — Samuel Johnson

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