Top 1200 Utter Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I utter what you would not dare think

Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

Being an uncle brings me utter joy.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.