Best despair & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.”

Feels Moments Jobs Lasts Next Loses Forget Bed Despair Get Up Stomach Next Day

Author:Ricky Schroder

“For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.”

Years Lasts Psychology Despair Frustration Last Year Anger Frustration

Author:Margo Kingston

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.”

“Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.”

Lasts Despair Weakness Misery

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.”

Ifs Men World Should May Stills Lasts Asks Sin Despair Degrees Highest Draws Devil Flesh Conquer Triumph Preserves Superstitions Distrust Tempted Wickedness Petitions True Faith

Book:Martin Luther's Table Talk

Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk

“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.”

Source: The Discovery of Being

“What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.”

Source: Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.”

Lasts Heaven Despair Optimism Optimist Resorts

Author:Alice Thomas Ellis

“Sun, I come to see you for the last time.”

Lasts Death Sun Despair Suicide Last Time

Author:Jean Racine

“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.”

Writing Done Enough Lasts Decision Player Streets Television Despair Late Wake Up Active Evening Smoke Email June Needles Dvds Work Done

Author:Cate Marvin

“Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.”

Moments Pain Lasts Joy Forever Despair Triumph Sigh Nothing Lasts Forever

Author:Paul Stewart

“We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.”

People Lasts Grief Seeing Week Streets Despair Mourning November Grief And Mourning

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.”

Lasts House White Party Watches Republican Despair Election Democrat Favors Checks Presidential White House Odds Gloomy Hubris Presidential Election Incumbents House Party

Author:Jon Meacham

“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.”

“If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast”

Ifs Years Would Be Lasts Lost Broken Return Despair All Time Beast Spells Doomed Petals

Author:Walt Disney

“NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”

Men May I Can Lasts Wish Cry Comfort Despair Thee Weary Strands Carrion

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.”

“For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.”

Lasts Despair Mad Medication

Book:A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

Thinking Trying Stills Reason Enough Moments Might Lasts Fighting Parent Despair Parenting Endurance

Book:Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

Source: Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

Giving Earth Lasts Beautiful Night Dark Lord Morning Sun Sea Terrible Mountain Despair Fairs Give Me Stronger Foundation Storm Rings Snow Queens Lightning Galadriel

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Way Littles Lasts Dies Courses Despair Shame Humiliation

Author:Clive Barker

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

Enough Lasts Night Too Much Fashion Despair Clothes Maturity Desperation Last Night Rouge

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.”

May Lasts Night Hope Stars Despair Disappear

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”

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Author:Rollo May

“Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.”

“This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.”

Trying Long Lasts Remember Despair Misery Control Myself

Author:Celia Johnson

“Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Rest forever. Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention nor is the earth worth a sigh. Bitterness and boredom is life, nothing else ever, and the world is mud. Quiet now. Despair for the last time. Fate gives us dying as a gift. Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power which rules for the common evil and the infinite vanity of it all.”

“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.”

Source: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

“So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”

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Book:Sickness Unto Death

Source: Sickness Unto Death

“Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.”

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Author:Franklin Graham

“To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.”

Firsts Children I Can Problem Lasts Parent Example Masters Despair Mathematics Grades Arithmetic Seventh Grade

Author:Jacques Hadamard

“And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls Just leave me to despair Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye The love we knew, ain't worth another try”

“To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.”

Men Lasts Individual Friendship Liberty Dog Blessing Despair Last Words Individual Liberty Greatest Blessings

Author:William Lyon Phelps

“To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”

Lasts Despair Last Words

Book:Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

Source: Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

“Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.”

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.”

Lasts Science Wonder Dangerous Despair Disease Patient Lungs Discharge Tuberculosis

Author:Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.”

Knows Love Heart Lasts Duty My Heart Despair

Book:Except the Lord: A Novel

Source: Except the Lord: A Novel

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