Despair Quotes
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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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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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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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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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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I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.
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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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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
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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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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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those who despair of life are not long for it.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
