Despair Quotes - Page 33

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Love is hope when reason despairs.

There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

All shall love me and despair.

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.