Despair Quotes - Page 7
Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus
Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin
Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.78, Macmillan
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications
Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press
Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group