Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and… — Jimmy Carter
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes… — Blaise Pascal
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless… — Sam Walter Foss
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. — William Carlos Williams
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even… — Vincent Van Gogh
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love… — Richard Baxter
I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm… — Claude Monet
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair. — Claude Monet
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If… — Thomas Merton
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art… — Ludwig van Beethoven
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one,… — Matthew Henry
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the… — David Hockney
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me… — Max Ehrmann
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and… — Benjamin Hooks
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. — Wassily Kandinsky
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise… — Charles Godfrey Leland
Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth… — Charles Godfrey Leland
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. — Yann Martel

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