D Quotes
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“Despair is anger with no place to go.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!”
“Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.”
“Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.”
Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles
“Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.”
“Despair is easy, or at least low cost.”
“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”
Source: Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans
“Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“Despair is infidelity and death.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.”
“Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.”
“Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“Despair is not for the living
but for those unable to rise and continue;
they are the only souls with a right to it.
It is an end where breath and strength and will
have vanished, leaving no way to persevere.
To sink into the abyss that is despair
is to suffer an existence far worse than death;
therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally—hope.
For life goes on,
and we must not live in despair.
We must not.”
Source: Eena, The Two Sisters
“Despair is not solid. Neither is joy. They alternate, and contain each other. There is no joy that is not also touched by sorrow, no grief that is not rendered sharper by the memory of bliss. If things move forward in one direction and not another, they do so by rolling there, passing through the same tight orbit, touching here an ecstasy, there another shattering loss.”
Source: The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“Despair is not your portion.”
“Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Despair is paralysis. It robs us of agency. It blinds us to our own power and the power of the earth… Restoration is a powerful antidote to despair. Restoration offers concrete means by which humans can once again enter into positive, creative relationship with the more-than-human world, meeting responsibilities that are simultaneously material and spiritual. ...
Restoration is imperative for healing the earth, but reciprocity is imperative for long-lasting, successful restoration. Like other mindful practices, ecological restoration can be viewed as an act of reciprocity in which humans exercise their caregiving responsibility for the ecosystems that sustain them. We restore the land, and the land restores us.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Despair is part of love.”
“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again. Meaningless, I almost said, aloud.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“Despair is something horribly simple.”
Source: Down There on a Visit
“Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.”
Source: THE SIDE OF INNOCENCE
“Despair is suffering without meaning.”
“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.”
Source: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era
“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
Source: Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield
“Despair is the constant companion of the clown.”
Source: Nights at the circus
“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.”
“Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us.”
Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance
“Despair is the enemy of action.”
Source: City of Villains
“Despair is the greatest of our errors.”
“Despair is the one thing that brings chaos to this world. Just like a single bullet setting off a world war, despair has the power to throw this world into chaos! Look at me now! I'm having so much fun! Even now, I'm filled with despair and excitement!”
“Despair is the only cure for illusion.”
“Despair is the only genuine atheism.”
“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
“Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.”
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim”
Source: The Heart of The Matter
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.”
Source: The Portable Graham Greene
“Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.”
Source: The Journey to the East: A Novel
“Despair is the source of all evil”
“Despair is the state in which anxiety and restlessness are immanent to existence. Nobody in despair suffers from “problems”, but from his own inner torment and fire. It’s a pity that nothing can be solved in this world. Yet there never was and there never will be anyone who would commit suicide for this reason. So much for the power that intellectual anxiety has over the total anxiety of our being! That is why I prefer the dramatic life, consumed by inner fires and tortured by destiny, to the intellectual, caught up in abstractions which do not engage the essence of our subjectivity. I despise the absence of risks, madness and passion in abstract thinking. How fertile live, passionate thinking is! Lyricism feeds it like blood pumped into the heart!”
Source: On the Heights of Despair
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.”
Source: Lenin on Literature and Art
“Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.”
“Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.”
Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book
“Despair isn't very productive. That's the problem with it. Like a replicating virus, all despair can make is more of itself.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.”
“Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow”
“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”
Source: Essays in Religion and Morality
“Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.”