Despair Quotes - Page 21

• People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Church

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

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• Despair is the only cure for illusion.

  Alexander Lowen

  Illusion, Cures

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• Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

  Ralph Nader

  Worry, Trying, Generations

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• One should never despair too soon.

  Frederick The Great

  Should

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• Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Acid, Form, Alienation

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Valleys, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  Guy Finley

  Disappointment, Expectations, Fruit

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• It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

  Laurie Garrett

  Giving Up, Democracy, Too Much

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• How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

  Karsten Harries

  Kitsch, Easy, Lyrical

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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• ... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

  Mary Oliver

  Risk, Comfort

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sleep, Home, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Hate, Temptation

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.40

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• Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Fair Play, Weary

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.399, A&C Black

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humble, Order, Grace

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• I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Panic, Given

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• The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Common, Form, Willing

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• The path to joy leads through despair.

  Alexander Lowen

  Joy, Path

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• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  David Boaz

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in resources; a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts; fortifications to check the first effort of rebellion; a regular administration to protect and punish; and a well-disciplined army to inspire fear, without provoking discontent and despair.

  Edward Gibbon

  Communication, Army, Effort

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.302, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Stout, Clear

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

  George Whitefield

  Reason Why, Should, Forgiven

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.537

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• Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

  John Derbyshire

  Pessimistic, Negative, Tendencies

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