Despair Quotes

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson
Strength Great You Perseverance Determination Impossible Few Despair Diligence Counsel Performed Fixed Few Things Skill Your Works Things
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. William Blake
Love Care Hell Despair Please Ease Hath Gives Another Builds Nor Itself Any Heaven
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
Time Beauty Despair Out Unbearable Minute Drives Over Glimpse Like Offering Eternity Us Should Whole Stretch
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. Andre Malraux
Love Truth Time History Remember Fall Think Despair Way Tyrants Seem Through Invincible Always Been End Won In The End Then
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel
Hope Too Despair Other Given Only Come Human Just Human Beings Beings
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert
Life Success Future You Challenge Glorious Despair Those Out Promise Rise Rather Feel Days Most Accomplishments So-Called Your Moments
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. John Wesley
Hope God Peace Joy Fear Will Pure Seen Changed Despair Spirit Horror Over Sinful Till Doing As Far As Them Far Persons Then Moment Many Reigning Desire Desires
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. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Love God Time Strength Religion Man Passion Compassion Defiance Thought Despair Others One Time Religious Religious Man Greatest Greatest Strength Times Person Done Holds Who Whose Suffers Harm
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. Andrew Jackson
Government Great Confidence People Intelligence Fear Result Despair Virtue Our Great Majority Majority Cannot Republic Founded
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. John F. Kennedy
Future Trust Obligation Faithful Past Owes Despair State Those Frankly Gives Inventory Facts He Takes His Nor Accounting Prudent Heir Whom Careful
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all. Michael Eric Dyson
Love Death God You Bible Hurt Humanity People Speak Destruction Word Mind Will Closed Mouth Live Believe Living Think Despair Our Neither Consult Dealing Nor Exist Midst Should Conquer Shut
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R. D. Laing
Schizophrenia Understanding Despair Without Understood Cannot
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre
Depression Character You Soul Grief Personality Pain Despair Our Physical Mental Physical Pain Alleviate Like Dementia Accessible Less Who Connected Treatment
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin
Struggle Evil Despair Typical Way Proletariat Those Out See Classes Category Industrial Understand Does Causes Modern Incapable Who Belong
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper
Sad Love Death Hope Love Is Despair Worse Absence Than Frustrate Whom
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. Cesar Chavez
Work Strength Needs Together Dignity People Problems Own Despair Solve Work Together Themselves Depth Organize Fill Need
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot
Sad Hope Great First Despair Our Absolute Recovered Healed Sorrow Known Which Moments Suffered
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. Paul Wellstone
Hope Disappointment Vote Frustration Action Believe Too Despair Out See Some Outrage Participate Come American Apathy Many Even
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. Randi Weingarten
Education Democracy Knowledge Fear Public Education Hatred Build Despair Kind Potential High-Quality Combat Economies Reach God-Given Stabilize Children Public Skills Communities Help Strengthen
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. Arthur Henderson
Confidence Action Carefully Despair Consider Our Address Mood Ourselves Haste Must Take Instead Without Survey Quiet Task Common Sober Pause Then Us Therefore Let Us Resolution Position
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot
Hope Despair Our Only Call Often Painful Eagerness
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. Henri Nouwen
Experience Anxiety Fear Society Increased Despair Our Indeed Ways Giants Paradox Threatening More Proportion Feel Powerful Powerless Equal Western Western Society New-Born Showing Even Ever Technological Muscles Babe
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne
Joy Hell Damp Despair Heaven Serenity
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Mahatma Gandhi
Love Nature You Man Evil Human Nature Despair Has-Been Must Brute Never Known Been Yield Human Essentially Influence Love You
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. Abbe Pierre
People Young Despair Concerns Young People Should Lives Universal
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. Anne Frank
Time Treat Dangerous Despair Our Hiding Never Adventure Been Diary Same Often Same Time Romantic Regard Interesting Amusing
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