Despair Quotes - Page 25

• There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.

  Ted Cruz

  Usa, People, Young

  "POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Ted Cruz". "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

  Edmund Hillary

  June, Moments

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pages, Way, Knows

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Disappointment, Clouds

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

  James Keller

  Doors, Hopeful

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• Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the guile of demons, then we see that after the commission of the sin, they suggest to us that God is a righteous and implacable Judge. The first they say in order to lead us to sin, the second, in order to weigh us down in despair.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow.

  Ian Bogost

  Lying, Yesterday, Insanity

  Source: app.longform.org

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• In the meantime, we have just incredible economic disparities and economic despair in this country and an entire generation that is basically held hostage in debt without the jobs to get out of it. And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Jobs, War

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

  Jonathon Keats

  Way, Doe, Seems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

  Jill Stein

  People, Movement, World

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

  Chath Piersath

  Helping Others, Focus, Needs

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to the darkness. So rather than that, we need to think of the beauty in the world, and also send out love and compassion to all beings in this world. Not just the people we like, but people who we find difficult. Because they are very deeply in need of compassion.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Dark, Thinking, Compassion

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• I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Depressing, Mean, Cities

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Grief, People, Mourning

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Light, Darkness, Redemption

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, People, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Bunch, Young

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Men, Philosopher

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Order, Voice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

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• If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering, Remove, Ifs

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Disappointment, Moving, Struggle

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Phrases, Use, Cry

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• [Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kind, Beckett, Committed

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