Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Denis Kearney

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Source Unknown

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Leo Buscaglia

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Catherynne M. Valente

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Ezra Taft Benson

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Joseph Joubert

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Howard Cosell

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Jakob Bohme

You are at enmity with yourself.

Garet Garrett

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

John Gardner

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

John Hancock

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Livy

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.