Despair Quotations | Page 4

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.

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.

Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

All our anxieties relate to time. ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

You should despair and run away.

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

The best medicine for despair is service.

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow.

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

All shall love me and despair.

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

I desperately wanted the AD job in 1989 because things were really bleak. There were elements of despair and resignation ? a feeling that Rice simply could not compete at the Division I level in the Southwest Conference. There was ample evidence of that: 24 straight losing seasons in football; no championships in any sport since 1971. But I knew we could win, and wanted the opportunity to show everyone I was right.

However this case comes down, if it's not in our liking, we're not gonna despair, be discouraged about it. God is in control, and so we'll accept that.

Collective punishment has cast a pall of anger and despair over the already tense occupied territories,

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

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

Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)