Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom… — William Butler Yeats
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through… — Aeschylus
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. — Benjamin Banneker
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one… — Simone Weil
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my… — William Blake
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look… — Christopher Columbus
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after… — Oriah Dreamer
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair. — Helen Steiner Rice
Love is hope when reason despairs. — Jack Hyles
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. — Robert Higgs
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. — William Walsh
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope. — Rudolph Fisher
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,… — John Donne
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause… — Dwan J. Young
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing… — Ludwig van Beethoven
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over… — Isaac Mayer Wise
The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment… — Wayne Dyer
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of… — David Seabury
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that… — Jack Handey
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. — William H. Hastie
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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