Despair Quotes - Page 29

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Despair is a natural emotion.

That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

God has prohibited despair.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair