Despair Quotes - Page 6

• Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Sadness, Doubt, Degrees

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• It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

  Lawrence Welk

  Moments, Curious

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Religion, Atheism, Resignation

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• Law is born from despair of human nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Law, Human Nature, Born

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Depth, Reckless, Ripple

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Incentives, Honorable Death, Honorable

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Needs

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• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boring, Amusing, Work Effort

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• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

  Leonard Cohen

  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Happiness, Spring, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  Raymond Williams

  Inevitable, Radical, Convincing

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• Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

  Bernard Berenson

  Hope, Cry, Young

  Bernard Berenson, Umberto Morra Di Lavriano (1963). “Colloqui con Berenson”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Perpetual, Idleness

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• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Raw Materials

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Patience, Neighbour

  Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212

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• Blues are the songs of despair.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Play, Shining

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  David McCullough

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Battle

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• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

  William Dunbar

  Emotional, Ironic, Mirth

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• God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Grace, Canvas

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2016

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• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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• Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Inspire, Events

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• So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

  Robert South

  Littles, Limits, Anticipation

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Bridges, Water, Way

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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