Despair Quotations | Page 3

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

The path to joy leads through despair.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

While no one today could have had the power to prevent the earthquake from happening, we do have the power to stop the next wave: the deaths and despair caused by freezing temperatures and disease, by lack of shelter, food and water,

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me...

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment ! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

Never despair. Never surrender.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

We wrestled pretty well the first round. We had some moments of despair, but overall we had a pretty good round.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Courage is the whisper in the moment of despair that says: "I must go on...

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

It wouldn't shock me if we got 600. This has been the most amazing winter. We went from despair to relief that there was snow then back to worrying again.

Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that anything was wrong

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

You can't be motivated by the angry rhetoric of fear and despair and vengeance.

Seeing despair and heartbreak, it'll bring you to your knees,

There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

There's no reason for utter despair, but this looks like a big exaggeration.

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.

I'm afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I've said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the nature of my day-to-day activities. Arthritis was my morning wake-up call, mood swings between ecstasy and despair my daily state of mind, and Scotch my release from it all.

Despair has been your lot for 60 years, ... but today we can say farewell with courage and with the knowledge that the fate of our fellow citizens has finally been discovered.

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

In the past few days, we have seen the power of nature cause damage and despair, ... But we will match that power with our own resolve, and we will come together as Californians and neighbors.

I have times when I despair, and I cry. There are moments when I want to give up. But my husband needs me. So I get up for one more day.

In times of grief and great despair one must find solace in the dawning of a new day.

But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.

Because the sheer size of the impact was so large, I think there is a greater sense of despair and loss that people are experiencing. This experience of dramatic, prolonged displacement will create a toll long into the future.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

He told police he had an argument with his girlfriend, he was in despair, ... This defendant was trying to end his own life.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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.

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

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

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

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

A world without hope, but no despair

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.