Top 1200 Utter Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Every now and again, it doesn't hurt to utter some home truths as long as it is not personal, just purely professional.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

The main problem with the Democrats is their utter negativity. They're made up of schumucks and hypocrites. They also have higher levels of immorality.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

I find shaving in general an utter chore so even removing the hair on the body parts that are on display happens on the rarest of occasions.

If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened - that system is a failure.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.