Top 1200 Utter Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you'll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We're pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you'll find parenting.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

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

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.