Best 1597 quotes in «despair quotes» category

Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Despair and die. The ghosts

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Despair often breeds disease.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

Despair is infidelity and death.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Despair makes priests and friars.

Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.