Despair Quotes - Page 26

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

Despair young and never look back.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.