Despair Quotes

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.