Despairing Quotes

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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the… — Nellie Bly
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. — Andre Breton
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and… — Albert Camus
There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory… — Claude Chabrol
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a… — Henri Nouwen
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of… — Saint Augustine
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the… — Lynette Fromme
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the… — Viktor E. Frankl
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I… — Halle Berry
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get… — Soren Kierkegaard
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away… — Soren Kierkegaard
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. — Alfred de Musset
To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does… — Soren Kierkegaard
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful,… — Nikki Gemmell
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless… — Saint Augustine
He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures… — Randy Alcorn
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either… — Ginette Paris
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and… — Adolf Hitler
The despairing soul is a rebel. — Joyce Carol Oates

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