Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. — Marshall McLuhan
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so… — Jon Meacham
Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love… — Max Muller
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — Haruki Murakami
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that… — Harry Nilsson
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. — Peggy Noonan
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief… — Henri Nouwen
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in… — Henri Nouwen
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to… — Flannery O'Connor
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. — P.J. O'Rourke
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. — Ben Okri
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's… — Chuck Palahniuk
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility… — Walker Percy
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. — J. B. Priestley
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. — Tony Robbins
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave… — Paul Ryan
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite… — Sharon Salzberg
Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. — William Shakespeare

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