Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is… — Daisaku Ikeda
Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of… — Elyse Fitzpatrick
Writing has freed me from the despair of living. — Anita Brookner
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for… — Adam Zagajewski
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that… — Nelson Mandela
Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing… — Joseph Alleine
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be… — Martin Luther
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For… — Joseph Conrad
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees… — Thomas Boston
There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair. — William Goyen
You should despair and run away. — Hayao Miyazaki
I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life… — Chris Bradford
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence,… — Whittaker Chambers
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first. — Yasmin Mogahed
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if… — Norman Macbeth
Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly,… — Barbara Pease
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a… — Anna Kamienska
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through… — Colum McCann
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred… — Gabrielle Giffords
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. — Werner Herzog
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. — Henri Matisse
When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any… — John H. Groberg
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,… — Henri Nouwen

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