Despair Quotes - Page 6

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

I learned to love despair.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

One should never despair too soon.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it