Despair Quotes

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.