Despair Quotes - Page 26

• The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Optimistic, Frustration, People

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• Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Men, Origin Of Life

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Loneliness, Optimism, Healthy

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• The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Helping, Desperation

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• It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

  James Fox

  Punishment, Absence

  James Fox (1996). “Killer on Campus”

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Rap, Men

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Darkness, Deceit

  "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Pride, Vanity, True Evil

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

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• What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

  Michael Jackson

  Joy, Feelings, Wish

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 20, 2012

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• As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Self, Long

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• All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Law, Soul

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Men, Soul

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• When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hard Times, Weight Problems, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Long, People

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• Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
  For each an imagined image brings
  And finds a real image there...

  William Butler Yeats

  Marriage, Real, Bed

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.132, Library of Alexandria

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• When clever people ask me where
  I get a poem, I despair.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, People, Poetry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Boredom, Mourning, Tedium

  'Les Misèrables' (1862) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 1

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• He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Heart, Pluck

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.132

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• the windy sky
  
  Cries out a literate despair.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sky, Cry, Windy

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Knopf

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• The greatest poverty is not to live
  In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
  Is too difficult to tell from despair.

  Wallace Stevens

  Desire, World, Poverty

  Wallace Stevens (1959). “Poems”

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• Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Boys, Feet

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

  Mason Cooley

  Action, Strive, Inaction

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• The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

  Mason Cooley

  Found, Modernism

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• I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Alive, Futility

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