Despair Quotes - Page 5

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

False hope is worse than despair.

[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)