Despair Quotes

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

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.

Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.