Top 1200 Utter Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I learned to love despair.

Despair has its own calms.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Despair is a natural emotion.

Blues are the songs of despair.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

I am not made for despair

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

The best medicine for despair is service.

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

At castings for commercials, you end up being told to do ridiculous things, such as animal impersonations. You probably get one commercial for 20 utter humiliations.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

God has prohibited despair.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

Action is the antidote to despair.

Despair and die. The ghosts

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Despair often breeds disease.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

Despair makes priests and friars.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Despair is infidelity and death.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Despair is part of love.

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.