Quotes about despair
despair
He who despairs is wrong. Victor Hugo
despair world would-be
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. Starhawk
despair devil degrees
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. . . . Soren Kierkegaard
despair common form
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
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
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
despair tasks easy
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 common spirituality
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
despair alive sometimes
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. Tanith Lee
despair
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. Sigmund Freud
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
despair use helping
You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this. Max Lucado
despair way tables
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. Maureen Johnson
despair needs towns
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now. Lee Child
despair priests friars
Despair makes priests and friars. Martin Luther
despair mountain stones
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
despair disadvantages tots
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. Mariella Frostrup
despair action strive
Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction. Mason Cooley
despair found modernism
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
despair joy solitude torment
Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
despair collaboration united-states
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. Alexis de Tocqueville
despair work
Never despair, but if you do, work in despair Edmund Burke
despair dream given illusion life love shield vanity
Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?
despair atheism genuine
Despair is the only genuine atheism. Jean Paul
despair companion
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion Jacqueline Carey
despair great-ones
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco
despair void too-late
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. Ezra Pound
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 garments ifs
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. George R. R. Martin
despair there-is-hope
Where there is hope, there is no despair. Gene Tierney