Despair Quotes - Page 28

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

Despair and die. The ghosts

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.