Best 1597 quotes in «despair quotes» category

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

People become artists out of despair.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.