Despairing Quotes
66 quotes by 58 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
— Alfred de Musset
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The despairing soul is a rebel.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Who Wrote These Despairing Quotes
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