Despair Quotes
(1 - 10 of 51)It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, more
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew more
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to more
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till more
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
