Quotes about despair
despair
Andrew Solomon Despair is part of love.
despair wish unbearable
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
despair
Anne Frank I have often been downcast, but never in despair;
despair atheism world
Robert Frost I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
despair can-do
Thomas F. Wilson Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.
despair relevance
Thomas Pynchon Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
despair littles said
Raymond Carver Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
despair littles expect-nothing
Susan Sontag Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
despair phrases comfort
Simone de Beauvoir I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
despair found i-have-learned
Thomas Merton I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
despair may hopeless
Thomas Merton A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
despair perpetual idleness
Thomas Carlyle In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
despair height depth
Thomas Carlyle The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
despair hopelessness planets
Sam Keen 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.
despair emotion natural
Tim Kaine Despair is a natural emotion.
despair inevitable radical
Raymond Williams To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
despair
Victor Hugo He who despairs is wrong.
despair disease
Sophocles Despair often breeds disease.
despair world would-be
Starhawk Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
despair gaps feels
Stefan Molyneux If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
despair
Sophie Swetchine God has prohibited despair.
despair devil degrees
Soren Kierkegaard The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .
despair common form
Soren Kierkegaard The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
despair weakness lawyer
Soren Kierkegaard Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
despair duty secured
Soren Kierkegaard Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
despair tasks easy
Soren Kierkegaard Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
despair hiding hiding-place
Soren Kierkegaard Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
despair form
Soren Kierkegaard The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
despair common spirituality
Soren Kierkegaard The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
despair alive sometimes
Tanith Lee I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
despair
Sigmund Freud Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
despair way world
Ravi Zacharias For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.