Despair Quotes - Page 27

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

The best medicine for despair is service.

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.