Quotes about despair
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 body shattered
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace. Paullina Simons
despair
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair. Paul Valery
despair wild-geese mines
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine Mary Oliver
despair noble conquer
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. Pierre Corneille
despair ecclesiastes devotion
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. Philip Yancey
despair
He who despairs is wrong. Victor Hugo
despair atheism world
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. Robert Frost
despair can-do
Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success. Thomas F. Wilson
despair relevance
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. Thomas Pynchon
despair social radical
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. Saul Alinsky
despair balance use
...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance. Rohinton Mistry
despair shields causes
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair. Roger Scruton
despair may overcoming
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. Samuel Johnson
despair bottom realising
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that. Trent Reznor
despair better-life slums
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. Vikas Swarup
despair cost easy
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. Rebecca Solnit
despair cups
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair Robert Jordan
despair today my-friends
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours Rodman Philbrick
despair littles limits
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
despair elation psychotic
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. Warren Buffett
despair talent shame
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. William Blake
despair trouble
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Werner Herzog
despair
Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
despair purpose purses
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse. William Cowper
despair inevitable radical
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable. Raymond Williams
despair
Never despair. [Nil desperandum.] Horace
despair should impart
We should impart our courage and not our despair. Henry David Thoreau
despair companion
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion Jacqueline Carey
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 inspired existential
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. Jason Silva