Despair Quotes

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

I learned to love despair.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

One should never despair too soon.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.