Despair Quotes - Page 15

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

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

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.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.