Despairing Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens. — Alex Steffen
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity. — James E. Faust
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I… — William Duncan Silkworth
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! — Robert Burns
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished… — Emile Zola
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with… — Thomas Oden
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. — Saint Augustine
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. — Timothy Keller
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. — Don McLean
It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago.… — Elon Musk
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant… — John L. Lewis
What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. — David Sedaris
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the… — Edgar Allan Poe
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:… — Nikos Kazantzakis
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf

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