Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do… — Khalil Gibran
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working… — Laurie Anderson
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. — Norman Cousins
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. — Avi Arad
I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims… — Ella Reeve Bloor
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. — Oscar Hammerstein II
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine — Mary Oliver
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me,… — Erica Jong
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair. — Thomas Merton
If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair. — Alistair Begg
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. — John Milton
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope... — Unknown Author
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child… — Ram Dass
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we… — J. Michael Straczynski
You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth… — Leo Buscaglia
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace. — Charles Spurgeon
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and… — Adolf Hitler
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the… — Elie Wiesel
There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward… — Boyd K. Packer

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