Quotes about despair
despair better-life slums
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. Vikas Swarup
despair cost easy
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. Rebecca Solnit
despair cups
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair Robert Jordan
despair today my-friends
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours Rodman Philbrick
despair littles limits
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
despair disease
Despair often breeds disease. Sophocles
despair world would-be
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. Starhawk
despair gaps feels
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. Stefan Molyneux
despair
God has prohibited despair. Sophie Swetchine
despair found i-have-learned
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. Thomas Merton
despair may hopeless
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
despair perpetual idleness
In idleness there is a perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle
despair height depth
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
despair
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. Sigmund Freud
despair noble conquer
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. Pierre Corneille
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 hiding hiding-place
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
despair form
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
despair common spirituality
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
despair inevitable radical
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable. Raymond Williams
despair bottom realising
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that. Trent Reznor
despair fair-play weary
Never flinch, never weary, never despair. Winston Churchill
despair get-better video
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair. Zachary Quinto
despair may overcoming
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. Samuel Johnson
despair elation psychotic
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. Warren Buffett
despair talent shame
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. William Blake
despair trouble
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Werner Herzog
despair
Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
despair purpose purses
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse. William Cowper