Quotes about despair
despair age disease
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. Norman Borlaug
despair bombs next
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist. Norman Cousins
despair results accomplish
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. John Calvin
despair green depth
I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables) Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 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 genius connected
Despair and Genius are too oft connected Lord Byron
despair
I learned to love despair.
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 needs trouble
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair John Clare
despair brian laura
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise John Cleese
despair literature world
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. John Cheever
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