Despair Quotes - Page 17

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sorrow, Unrest, Calm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

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• Despair is the greatest of our errors.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Errors

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• I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Class, Investing

  John Stuart Mill (1873). “Autobiography”, p.290

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• Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Connections, Rope

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.696, Barbour Publishing

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• Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Able, Bears

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Light, Shining, Grace

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

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Heart, Poverty, Chill

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• Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

  Edith M. Thomas

  Hope, Air, Heaven

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• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Son, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “The Professor”, p.117, Charlotte Bronte

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• Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

  Francois Fenelon

  Fall, Humility, Pride

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• For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

  Charles G. Dawes

  Commerce

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• Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Hope, Slave, Willing

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• Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

  Terri E Apter

  Self Confidence, Unique, Swings

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• Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Fire, Chance

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Confusion, Clarity

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

  Christina Baldwin

  Two Sides, Joy, Promise

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Girl, Sweet, Gay

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• Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

  William Faulkner

  Lust, Valleys, Hills

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, Fearless, Inferiority

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Thinking

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• Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Giving, Overcoming, Spirit

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• Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influence - where people are free - it reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind . . .

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Independent, Eye

  Helmut Gernsheim (1962). “Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960”, p.229, Courier Corporation

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• Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

  Erich Fromm

  Optimism, Pessimism, Form

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.725, Open Road Media

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• Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Morality, Vain

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