Despair Quotes
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The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.
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I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
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And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
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When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
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The path to joy leads through despair.
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But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her Eleanor Roosevelt, because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
