Quotes about despair
despair way kind
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor
despair world without-hope
A world without hope, but no despair Henry Miller
despair trying purpose
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated. George Eliot
despair torn craving
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. Francoise Sagan
despair degrees needs
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. J. B. Priestley
despair innocence blame
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? Georges Bataille
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Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven. George Whitefield
despair inspired existential
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. Jason Silva
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But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.
despair stoic grows
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair. Bertrand Russell
despair life side stories
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. Morris Gleitzman
despair madness nor yesterday
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where Edward Fitzgerald
despair hope
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
despair limits miserable
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 H. G. Wells
despair demand expect-nothing
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. James Hillman
despair panic possibility
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. Janet Fitch
despair moments
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. Christopher Hitchens
despair
Never despair. [Nil desperandum.] Horace
despair should impart
We should impart our courage and not our despair. Henry David Thoreau
despair sin humans
Perhaps despair is the only human sin. Gretel Ehrlich
despair guidance
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
despair matter gates
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair. Guy Gavriel Kay
despair bottles degrees
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me. Gillian Flynn
despair there-is-hope
Despair exists only when there is hope. Jiddu Krishnamurti
despair great hope leaders learned lend
Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.
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All shall love me and despair. J. R. R. Tolkien
despair nerves valleys
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
despair relax care
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. J. M. Coetzee
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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. George H. W. Bush
despair simplistic
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. Leo Buscaglia
despair final lesson thoroughly volume
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Edgar Allan Poe
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The president is not telling us the time frame ... what's happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation, Russ Feingold
despair abandoned interest
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. David Whyte