Despair Quotes - Page 10

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.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

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.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

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.