Despair Quotes - Page 4

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.

Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

Despair has its own calms.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.