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. Read Summary
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Read Summary
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. Read Summary
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Read Summary
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Read Summary
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Read Summary
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. Read Summary
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future. Read Summary
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. Read Summary
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Read Summary
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. Read Summary
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. Read Summary
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Life begins on the other side of despair. Read Summary
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. Read Summary
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Read Summary
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. Read Summary