Despair Quotes

Despair Quote of the day

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?