Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. — Charlie Chaplin
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. — Cesar Chavez
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with… — Cesar Chavez
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels… — Hillary Clinton
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly… — Leonard Cohen
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger… — Henri Nouwen
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of… — Neal A. Maxwell
The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road… — Sun Tzu
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer… — Ole Hallesby
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and… — Elie Wiesel
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when… — Ned Rorem
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not… — Lee Iacocca
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness… — William Osler
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe… — Henry David Thoreau
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that… — Albert Camus
Man dies of cold, not of darkness. — Miguel de Unamuno
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;… — William Blake
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the… — Oscar Wilde
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.… — Ezra Pound
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. — John Donne

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