Despondency Quotes
Despondency Quote of the day
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.