Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

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.

William Blake

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.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Zachary Quinto

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.

Trent Reznor

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

William Hazlitt

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Wendell Berry

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.

William Hazlitt

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Epictetus

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Michel de Montaigne

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Markus Zusak

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.