Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and… — Mark Twain
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year… — Hal Porter
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a… — Jeffrey Smart
I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about. — Robert Helpmann
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try… — Leo Buscaglia
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed… — Charlie Chaplin
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds… — Tilda Swinton
A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair — Dalai Lama
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair — Federico Garcia Lorca
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us… — Wendell Berry
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. — Cory Booker
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. — Cornel West
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. — Federico Fellini
...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life is a season… — Gregory Palamas
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly… — Richard C. Edgley
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never… — Henry David Thoreau
Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all,… — Joao Magueijo
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier
I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As… — John Bunyan
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair. — Nelson Mandela
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. — Rebecca Solnit

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