Despondency Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to… — Lord Chesterfield
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in… — David Spangler
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. — Baruch Spinoza
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come… — Anderson Cooper
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle,… — Charles Spurgeon
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its… — Wyndham Lewis
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens… — Jean Genet
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good… — Paulo Coelho
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of… — Thabo Mbeki
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their… — Jeremy Collier
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates… — Tae Yun Kim
How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our… — Stephen Charnock
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following… — William Wordsworth
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of… — Pope Francis
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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