Despair Quotes - Page 37

• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Lying, Jealous, Unrequited Love

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• Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

  Catherine Fisher

  Dream, Wall, World

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Self, Names

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• For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mad, Lasts, Medication

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.195, Baen Books

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• Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Demand, Who We Are

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 12, 2012

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• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wall, Home, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.128, Beacon Press

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• Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Cities, Answers, Ready

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.82, Granta Books

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• I am not made for despair

  Lian Hearn

  Made

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

  T. S. Eliot

  Climbing, Fading, Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Political, Climate

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• [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Bird, Cages

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

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• Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

  Maureen Johnson

  Tables, Way, Foreheads

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.29, Penguin

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• If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Silence, Floating

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.21, RH Childrens Books

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• I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Hopeless, Not Sure

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.428, Anchor

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Tired, Blessing

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Eye, Mirrors

  "Sandman #21: 'Season of Mists'". DC Comics series by Neil Gaiman, preludium, 1992.

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• Never despair. Never surrender.

  Alan Moore

  Surrender, Never Surrender

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Way, Excitement

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Loneliness, Heart

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• To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Soul, Passionate

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Husband, Men, Mustache

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• I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Loss, Black, Helping

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1063, Dell

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• By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

  H. G. Wells

  Limits, Miserable, Persuasion

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.60, H. G. Wells

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• He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Eye, Knees

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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