Despair Quotes
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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I’m going to explode,” she muttered. “Into a cloud of dust and despair.
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Despair is part of love.
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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.
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Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
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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.
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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
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Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.
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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.
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Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
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To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
