Quotes about despair
despairing
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. Kay Redfield Jamison
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 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 fair-play weary
Never flinch, never weary, never despair. Winston Churchill
despair cost easy
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. Rebecca Solnit
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 aviation get-up
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. Avi Arad
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 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 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 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 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 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 green depth
I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables) Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 genius connected
Despair and Genius are too oft connected Lord Byron
despair
I learned to love despair.
despair world depth
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
despair sin folly
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly. Ellis Peters
despair epic help truly
The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.
despair regression return
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started. Henri Nouwen
despair bears firsts
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? Heinrich Heine
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 storm september
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are. Catherynne M. Valente