Despair Quotes - Page 7

Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God’s faithfulness, not yours.

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

Despair often breeds disease.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.