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There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.
If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.
We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.
'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
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.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.