Best 1597 quotes in «despair quotes» category

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if only on the page. You get to run the show. You can right wrongs, bring departed loved ones back to life, even take vengeance on God, if that's your thing.

Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

A world without hope, but no despair