Top 1200 Utter Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.

Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

You can only utter things proved by science. Do you realize that would shut down the entire climate change community? Because none of it is provable by science. Don't tell them that, but none of it is yet.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

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.

Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

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

When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.