Despair Quotes - Page 12

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

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.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

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.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

The path to joy leads through despair.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.