Despair Quotes
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I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.
Cleve Jones
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I’m going to explode,” she muttered. “Into a cloud of dust and despair.
Courtney Milan
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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.
Martin Luther
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In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
George Monbiot
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Honore de Balzac
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Despair is an act of resignation I am not willing to make.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
James Anthony Froude
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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
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Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
William Cowper
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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Mother Teresa
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
William Shakespeare
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Saint Augustine
