Best despair & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Despair makes victims sometimes victors.”

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.”

Mind May Sometimes Despair Flowering

Book:THE SIDE OF INNOCENCE

Source: THE SIDE OF INNOCENCE

“Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.”

Source: The Book of Guys: Stories

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Most of the heartache, pain, and suffering we would not choose today. But we did choose. We chose when we could see the complete plan. We chose when we had a clear vision of the Savior's rescue of us. And if our faith and understanding were as clear today as it was when we first made that choice, I believe we would choose again.”

“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”

Needs Wells May Children Sometimes Home Mother Fall Father Parent Offers Kissing Despair Defeat Womb Disgrace Grown Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Dream Courses Literature Know How Mankind Birth Despair Depression Crisis Deeper Immortality Enjoyment Relative Plunge

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

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

“Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.”

Heart Sometimes Poverty Despair Chill Calmness

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

“I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.”

Ifs World Mean Sometimes States Despair Tired Spirited Mean Spirited

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.”

Knows Way Mean Sometimes Cities Economy Despair Exciting Combination Pleasant Hopeless Mexico Depressing Hopelessness Lively Mexico City Vibrancy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.”

Sometimes Order Difficult Voice Compassion Heard Despair Acts Of Love

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Happens Can Do Despair No Matter What Depth You Can Do It Claws Sports Psychology

Author:Gordon Strachan

“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.”

Want Sometimes Age Certain Left Natural Religious Numbers Conditions Events Goes On Despair Artistic Firm Collapse Cheese Repetition Eccentric

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.”

World Feels Looks Heart Littles Said Different Sometimes Eye Scene Despair Window Mirrors Patient Tiny Our World Void Multitudes Hook Domain

Author:Neil Gaiman

“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.”

Ifs Wells Sometimes Would Be Suffering Wish Pleasure Wonder Cases Impossible Sorrow Despair Singing Bounds Monotonous Misers Muttering

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.”

Thinking Made Important Sometimes Moments Remember Joy Fall Three Alive Week Sky Minutes Color Despair Illusion Rainbow Vivid Spectacular Hail Azaleas

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.”

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple”

Source: A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”

Made Stills Sometimes Choices Decision Despair Painful Alternatives Relief Wrestling Forks Making Decisions Tainted

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.”

Ifs Knows Mind Sometimes Facts Universe Praying Despair Unexpected Display Astonishment

Book:Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.”

Sometimes Alive Despair Very Good

Book:The Silver Metal Lover

Source: The Silver Metal Lover

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.”

Life I Can Sometimes Suffering Music Despair Piano Pianist Player Piano

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

People Thinking Different Sometimes Courses Reading Nations Laughing Despair Desperate Tragic Soviet Typical

Author:Alina Bronsky

“Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.”

Love Giving Persons Sometimes Left Loss Truth Is Despair Giving Up Broke Up Sad Break Up Love Really Sad Break Up

Author:Melisa Cantiveros

“But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.”

Men Doe Sometimes Seems Dark Despair Finals Presidential Abyss Stand Alone

Author:John F. Kennedy

“There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”

Sometimes Moments Running Night House White Shapes Despair Window Presses Rage Fog Simplest Thoughts Of Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.”

May Persons Sometimes Might Love Is Creative Greater Strange Despair And Love Impulse Reasonable Uncertain Benevolence Unreasonable Uncertain Times

Author:Robert Fripp

“There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from it's insight into human nature. Because so many of us rage against the hand that life has dealt us. Because so many of us are cowardly. And afraid to stand up for what is right. Because so many of us give into despair when faced with an impossible choice. The good news for those who utter these words is that God will hear you and answer your prayer. The bad news is that sometimes the answer is no.”

People Want Giving Humans Sometimes Hands Choices Prayer Answers Accepting Impossible Human Nature Circumstances Despair News Insight Rage Gods Will Good News Our Prayers Cowardly Bad News

Author:Mary Alice

“Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.”

Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

“The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.”

World Needs Self Sometimes Stories Space Trouble Despair Deeper Redemption Chests Openness Routes Hollow Clutch Dig Deep Small Spaces

Book:The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.”

Littles Sometimes Despair Surprise Disappointment Horrible Chocolate Toys Sheer Nasty Crave Disillusionment Kinder

Author:Bill Bailey

“Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.”

People Feels Sometimes Knowing Despair Not Knowing

Author:Michael Gilbert

“Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Has Beens Sometimes Beautiful Despair Trauma Shattered Beautiful Heart

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.”

Knows Art Sometimes Play Light Prayer Months Shapes Despair Shadow Combination Germs

Author:Jeffrey Smart

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.”

Ifs Sometimes Walks Known Fire Despair Adversity Refiner's Fire

Author:Richard C. Edgley

“I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.”

Important Sometimes Despair Claims Affected Altered Being Me Being Mean

Author:Olympia Dukakis

“We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.”

Source: Thoughts of Saint Thérèse

“I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.”

World Sometimes Pain Voice Modern Cry Listening Despair Scripture Ministry Modern World Voice Of God

Author:John Stott

“As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.”

Said Soul Sometimes States Joy Suffering Steps Despair Enjoyment Melancholy Misfortunes Twilight Strokes Affliction Robust Being Sad Somber Despondency

Author:Victor Hugo

“Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.”

Doe Important Sometimes Remember Life Is Spirituality Force Difficult Our Lives Alive Despair Lifts Love Life Abyss Without Love

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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