Despairs Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
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
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will… — Frederic Tudor
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs… — William James
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
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Love is hope when reason despairs. — Jack Hyles
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of… — Carl Rogers
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
He who despairs is wrong. — Victor Hugo
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. — Truman Capote

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