Quotes about despair
despair demand expect-nothing
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. James Hillman
despair panic possibility
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. Janet Fitch
despair rewards conflict
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. Christopher Hitchens
despair limits miserable
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything H. G. Wells
despair skins together
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. Judith Guest
despair there-is-hope
Despair exists only when there is hope. Jiddu Krishnamurti
despair inspired existential
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. Jason Silva
despair degrees needs
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. J. B. Priestley
despair extreme face older people response strong
But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.
despair husband moments needs
I have times when I despair, and I cry. There are moments when I want to give up. But my husband needs me. So I get up for one more day.
despair green depth
I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables) Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 able would-be
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. Lisa Kleypas
despair would-be ends
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. Leo Tolstoy
despair common desperation
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?
despair matter depth
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. Gordon Strachan
despair progress gave-up
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress. John Lewis
despair action oneself
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. Kate Morton
despair moments curious
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. Lawrence Welk
despair energy latter
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. John Keats
despair priests friars
Despair makes priests and friars. Martin Luther
despair mountain stones
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
despair disadvantages tots
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. Mariella Frostrup
despair form snobbery
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. Joseph Brodsky
despair oneself
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. Mary Renault
despair lessons remember
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. Mary Baker Eddy
despair matter ephemeral
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Mario Vargas Llosa
despair looks may
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final. Mary McCarthy
despair may criminals
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. Mikhail Lermontov