Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)
The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress.
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.
It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.
There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.
We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically from photos; we have DNA fingerprinting, infrascan photos that can identify you from the veins in your face.
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
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