Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. — Martin Luther
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. — Piers Paul Read
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus… — Juan Mascaro
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the… — Pope Paul VI
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or… — Peter Cundall
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for… — Max Lucado
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… — Thomas Paine
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing… — Harry S. Truman
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom… — William Blake
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from — Paul Weller
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for… — Anthony Loyd
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise… — Wayne Dyer
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that… — Lord Byron
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought… — Lucy Grealy
My days are as long as despair can make them. — Kathryn Harrison
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of… — Catherine Breillat
Where there is hope, there is no despair. — Gene Tierney
Too much rouge is a sign of despair. — Arlene Dahl

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