Despair Quotes - Page 19

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.