Best 1597 quotes in «despair quotes» category

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.

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

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.

People become artists out of 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

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.

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.

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.