Despair Quotes - Page 18

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.