Despair Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, War, Ignorance

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be
  found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the
  enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Grief, Sadness

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• Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

  Bryan Procter

  Brain, Strikes, Mischief

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• The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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• We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
  violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Anxiety, Energy

  "Talks in Europe 1968". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 22, 1968) as quoted in "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume 15 (1964-1965): The Dignity of Living", book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1992.

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• To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Curves, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Air, Swim, Different

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.5

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• I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

  George III

  Country, Fall, Self

  1780 Letter to Lord North, 7 Mar.

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• Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Insecurity, Pits

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Crush, Daughter, Mother

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• Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of heaven, and while He waits for you, draw near in tears to our merciful Judge. Having before your mind that He is a Just Judge, do not take your sins lightly; and having also in mind that He is compassionate, do not despair. The God-Man gives man confidence before God.

  Pope Gregory I

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

  Max Lucado

  Blue, Sky, Needs

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Suffering, Purpose

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Imagination, World

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Pain, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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