- Nov 07, 2020
Despair Quotes
Honest words for the days that feel heaviest.
This collection of despair quotes doesn't rush past difficult feelings; it names the fog of a stalled mind and the weight of everyday struggle while still pointing toward resilience, much like the outlook explored in our Darkness page.
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- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
- Life
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
- Dream
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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.
- Coward
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
- Life
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
- Faith
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.
- Dead
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Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020