Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

Out of this despair is going to come a vibrant coast, ... I understand if you're saying to yourself, 'Well, it's hard for me to realize what George W. is saying because I've seen the rubble and I know what has happened to my neighbors.' But I'd like to come back down here in about two years and walk your streets and see how vital this part of the world is going to be.

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.

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.

Donella Meadows

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Anne Frank

I have often been downcast, but never in despair;

Christopher Moore

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..

Clive Barker

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Andrew Solomon

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

Andrew Solomon

Despair is part of love.

Morris Gleitzman

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

Amy Tan

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Denis Kearney

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Bram Stoker

Despair has its own calms.

Don Williams

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness

Cornel West

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

Russ Feingold

The president is not telling us the time frame ... what's happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation,

Luc de Clapiers

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

William Shakespeare

Despair and die. The ghosts

Christopher Hitchens

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Mary McCarthy

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.

Mikhail Lermontov

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

J. M. Coetzee

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Joseph Brodsky

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Despair exists only when there is hope.

H. G. Wells

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything