Quotes about despair
despair found modernism
The modernist writers found despair inspirational. Mason Cooley
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 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 form snobbery
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. Joseph Brodsky
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
despair valleys i-have-a-dream-speech
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. Martin Luther King, Jr.
despair acid form
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
despair middle-east do-the-best
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. P. J. O'Rourke
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 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 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