Quotes about despair
despair extreme face older people response strong
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 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 inspired existential
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. Jason Silva
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 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 skins together
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. Judith Guest
despair great hope leaders learned lend
Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.
despair littles said
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. Raymond Carver
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 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 oneself
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. Mary Renault
despair lessons remember
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance. Mary Baker Eddy
despair matter ephemeral
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Mario Vargas Llosa
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 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 should
One should never despair too soon. Frederick the Great
despair deceptive hollow
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope! Lu Xun
despair weakness misery
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. Luc de Clapiers
despair needs trouble
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair John Clare
despair brian laura
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise John Cleese
despair tools wealth
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. Og Mandino
despair halls hope leave people visiting
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls. Jason Gedrick
despair world depth
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
despair triumph intense
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. Emile Zola
despair habit
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Emile M. Cioran
despair tasks lucidity
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
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.