Quotes about Despair

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.

Oh, don't go on like that! cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. Can you keep from crying by considering things? she asked. That's that way it's done, the Queen said with great decision: nobody can do two things at once, you know.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma. Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.