Quotes about Despair
Despair is a high point of atheism, it takes away God and Christ both at once. Judas, in betraying our Saviour, was an occasion of his death as man, but in despairing he did what lay in him to take away his life as God.
— Richard Sibbes
Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves—that we are here.
— Rob Bell
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
— Robert Frost
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
— John Donne
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
Existence, after losing her, would be hell.
— Emily Bronte
Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
— Emily Bronte
She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.
— Emily Bronte
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
— Emily Bronte
It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.
— Emily Bronte
he's the only person I have to love in the world. But you, Heathcliff, have no one to love you, and nobody to cry for you when you die!
— Emily Bronte