Despair Quotes
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.