Best 1597 quotes in «despair quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.