Despair Quotes - Page 13

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

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

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.