Despair Quote by Soren Kierkegaard Download Open image “People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.” — Soren Kierkegaard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despair Happiness Levels People Settling Tolerate
There is one wishe that people try to manifest, the emotional stability that gives them the sense of well being that they call happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude. — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
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Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way; it is just a darkness and you can still walk… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
