Despair Quotes - Page 23

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan