Quotes about despair
despair form
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself. Soren Kierkegaard
despair common spirituality
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
despair relevance
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. Thomas Pynchon
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 fair-play weary
Never flinch, never weary, never despair. Winston Churchill
despair get-better video
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair. Zachary Quinto
despair cowardice
Despair swallows up cowardice. William Hazlitt
despair fundamentals sake
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings. Wendell Berry
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 destruction
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. Lenny Bruce
despair world disease
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
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 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 emotion natural
Despair is a natural emotion. Tim Kaine
despair hopelessness planets
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet. Sam Keen
despair want culture
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. Natalie Merchant
despair phrases comfort
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. Simone de Beauvoir
despair found i-have-learned
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. Thomas Merton
despair may hopeless
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
despair perpetual idleness
In idleness there is a perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle
despair height depth
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
despair inevitable radical
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable. Raymond Williams
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 littles said
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. Raymond Carver