Despair Quotes

1642 Despair quotes by 1070 unique authors

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result… — Mercy Otis Warren
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. — Amitav Ghosh
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. — Rohinton Mistry
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and… — Rush Limbaugh
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's… — Studs Terkel
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events. — Tariq Ramadan
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that… — Maurice Sendak
In idleness there is a perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to… — Sally Mann
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People… — Douglas MacArthur
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God… — Ebenezer Elliott
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.… — Saint John Chrysostom
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? — Francis Parker Yockey
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate.… — Cory Booker
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When… — Newt Gingrich
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is… — Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for… — Unknown Author
To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage. — Ted Koppel

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