Despair Quotes
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Despair is the only cure for illusion.
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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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Despair often breeds disease.
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect 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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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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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The path to joy leads through despair.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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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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It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
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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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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
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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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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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In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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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 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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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
