Best despair & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.”

War Dream Lying Loss Wonder Despair Bones Trapped Hopes And Dreams Desolation

Book:Dark Moon

Source: Dark Moon

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”

“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”

“Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.”

World May War Ends Simple Despair Capacity Disaster War Of The Worlds Excess Capitalist Sheer Outlets Bankruptcy Recurrence

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.”

Ifs Mind Kind Littles War Body Hair Despair Victim Painter Deception Dirty Noses Earnest Mind And Body Bruised Frantic Ragged

Author:Walter Keane

“It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.”

Men World Giving War Running Despair Reasonable Prize Committees Nobel

Author:Martin Firrell

“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.”

Source: Le journal de Zlata

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”

War Dark Wife Despair Clouds Divorce Isolated Veteran Family Life Basements Upstairs Bewildered Dark Clouds Hang Over

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.”

Men Should Art War States Enemy Failing Military Despair Increase Absence Remedy Beaten Overwhelmed Crushed

Author:Francois Rabelais

“All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”

War Soul Age Law Chance Despair Tyranny

Author:John Donne

“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”

Thinking Wells War Whole Young Plans Generations Despair Projects Extraordinary Population Live In The Present This Generation Just Live Young Generation

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“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

“War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.”

Knows War Religious Ignorance Despair Hunger Barriers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”

Men Love War Age Fun Half Hell Mystery Adventure Despair Discovery And Love Longing Terror Pity Holiness Nasty Thrilling Drudgery

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?”

“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”

Needs Littles War Hands Literature Term Alive Fate Despair Notes Ruins Rejection

Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“In the meantime, we have just incredible economic disparities and economic despair in this country and an entire generation that is basically held hostage in debt without the jobs to get out of it. And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that.”

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

War States Games Team Fields Football Despair Glory Army Texas Banner Football Game Inspirational Team Travels With Charley

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira”

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Author:Tite Kubo

“The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.”

“This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.”

Believe May Mean Doe War Fighting Enemy Objects Despair Safety Crush

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.”

“From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.”

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Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.”

Mind War Feelings Views Moral Military Despair Favors Improving Disposition Abolition

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.”

People World War Today Young Suffering Community Danger Despair Oppression Isolation Our World Construction World Today Armament

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.”

People Knows Believe Heart Long War Country Faces Perfect Business Building My Heart Despair Unions Settling Reaching Divided Belive

Author:Barack Obama

“Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.”

War Suffering Loss Rights Despair Denial Anti War No War Bloodshed Loss Of Faith

Author:Anwar Sadat

“Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.”

War Imagination Moral Despair Absolutes Response Defeat Confusion

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.”

World Mind Made War Feelings Peace Views Moral Conditions Despair Proof Favors Mistaken Improving Approved Abolition Tolerable Supposing

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will be a hero in war, love, or business.”

Giving Firsts War Hero Despair Blow Giving Back War Love

Author:Frederic Tudor

“It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of poverty, that your wealth is a gift. It is because the world is so unfriendly, that your smile is a gift. It is because the world is so full of war, that your peace of mind is a gift. It is because the world is in such despair, that your hope and optimism is a gift. It is because the world is so afraid, that your love is a gift.”

World Mind War Happiness Suffering Wealth Love Is Poverty Despair Optimism Peace Of Mind Your Smile Unfriendly Optimism And Hope

Book:Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

“Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe”

World Heart War Hate Universe Peace Despair Our World Falsehood Love Hate Leading Me

Author:Satish Kumar

“The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.”

People Giving Ideas War Poor Rich Despair Driven Rage Vengeance Wrath Torches

Author:Friedrich Engels

“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”

War Soul Age Earth Law Chance Despair Angel Rounds Blow Corners Tyranny Arise Infinity Trumpets Round Earth

Book:John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme

Source: John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme

“Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.”

People Men Years Firsts Children War Home Enemy Fire Wife Thousand Despair Hundred Rain Driving Fearful Traffic Ruthless Liquor Blast Robbing Pestilence

Author:Neal S. Dow

“I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.”

“From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.”

Source: The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition

“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.”

Way War Soul Dream Fighting Lost Darkness Greater Despair Chaos Flesh Surrender Peril Never Surrender Darkness Of The Soul

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.”

War Light Eye Given Personality Despair Glorious Remarkable Doom Gloom Dazzling Elijah Frodo Doom And Gloom

Author:Ian Holm

“If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.”

Ifs Looks Mean War Use Culture Force Half Members Despair Endless Alternatives Tire Discontent Use Of Force Feuds Homicidal Bringing Peace Half Life

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

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