Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

The best medicine for despair is service. — Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair. — Joe Orton
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us… — Billy Graham
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that… — Desmond Tutu
Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will… — T. B. Joshua
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even… — Ernest Becker
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not… — Ban Ki-moon
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair — Charles Spurgeon
Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the… — Ronald A. Heifetz
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed,… — Shams Tabrizi
Despair young and never look back, — Samuel
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making. — Nicholas Wolterstorff
The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love,… — Min Jin Lee
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. — Ian Holm
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks… — Kim Stanley
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable… — Zachary Quinto
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. — Olympia Dukakis
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. — Jen Hatmaker
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived… — May Sarton
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers… — Blaise Pascal
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume. — Saint Augustine
We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be… — Therese of Lisieux
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people… — Greg Kinnear

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