Despair Quotes - page 7

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. (Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
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. View quote
William Shakespeare
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity. View quote
Paul Kurtz
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares. View quote
Henri Nouwen
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. (Winston Churchill)
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason. View quote
Peter Drucker
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful. View quote
Peter Drucker
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times. View quote
Colum McCann
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? No, rather smile away despair. View quote
John Clare
Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned. (Augustine of Hippo)
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. View quote
Markus Zusak
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. View quote
Maureen Johnson
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. View quote
Maurice Gibb
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. View quote
Rick Riordan