Despair Quotes - Page 6

• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Boredom, Humanity

  "The last word on lying" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 1999.

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• Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

  R. D. Laing

  Understanding, Schizophrenia, Understood

  The Divided Self (1960) ch. 2

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Needs

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Depth, Reckless, Ripple

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Patience, Neighbour

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Calling

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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