Quotes about despair
despair sin folly
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly. Ellis Peters
despair regression return
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started. Henri Nouwen
despair bears firsts
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? Heinrich Heine
despair world depth
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
despair expectation hits hope oft
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits William Shakespeare
despair drunkards ennui gamblers indian-leader perhaps
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
despair
Never despair. [Nil desperandum.] Horace
despair should impart
We should impart our courage and not our despair. Henry David Thoreau
despair great-ones
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco
despair way kind
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor
despair world without-hope
A world without hope, but no despair Henry Miller
despair trying purpose
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated. George Eliot
despair bottles degrees
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me. Gillian Flynn
despair
All shall love me and despair. J. R. R. Tolkien
despair nerves valleys
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
despair innocence blame
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? Georges Bataille
despair reason-why should
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven. George Whitefield
despair atheism genuine
Despair is the only genuine atheism. Jean Paul
despair companion
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion Jacqueline Carey
despair moments
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. Christopher Hitchens
despair vitality reason
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. George Santayana
despair fundamentals matter
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
despair hopelessness pleasure
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. Fyodor Dostoevsky
despair torn craving
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. Francoise Sagan
despair garments ifs
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. George R. R. Martin
despair there-is-hope
Where there is hope, there is no despair. Gene Tierney
despair void too-late
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. Ezra Pound
despair sin humans
Perhaps despair is the only human sin. Gretel Ehrlich
despair guidance
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
despair matter gates
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair. Guy Gavriel Kay
despair looks reason utter
There's no reason for utter despair, but this looks like a big exaggeration.
despair hope
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
despair offspring
Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness Don Williams