Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Charles Lamb
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of… — Carl Rogers
If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if… — Neil L. Andersen
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them,… — Elie Wiesel
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. — Francois Fenelon
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I… — Van Morrison
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. — Aleksandar Hemon
Love and despair go hand in hand. — Barry Hannah
Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will… — George Michael
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. — Don McLean
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house. — Marian Keyes
There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in… — Ricky Schroder
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our… — Blaise Pascal
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun… — Donna Tartt
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. — Saul Alinsky
Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not… — Jeffrey R. Holland
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly… — Jeffrey R. Holland
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair.… — Elie Wiesel
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair… — David Gemmell
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair. — Roger Scruton
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. — Bruce Dickinson
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked… — Martin Niemoller

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