(270 quotes found)
“To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”
Philip Massinger
“We choose hope over despair, possibilities over problems, optimism over cynicism.”
John Edwards
“I have a lot more faith in Lord Jesus and myself. I truly don't see despair here. I see the joy of thinking about another person.”
John Dixon
“Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair”
John Denham
“The level of suffering is absolutely horrific, ... The despair, especially on the faces of so many of the children really just breaks your heart. I want every person in America to feel the outrage that I feel as I hear these stories over and over and over again.”
Elizabeth Dole
“There's a portion of the Israeli electorate that is mortified, horrified, despairing over the fact of Israel's departure from Gaza and believes that it's the beginning of the end of Israel. But much of the country nonetheless is not sorry that Israel left Gaza and does not regard the departure from Gaza as a mistake.”
David Horovitz
“[Dryden's long-form style of answering questions means] he's almost never invited on TV, ... He's the despair of every TV producer who's ever had him on. That's a high-class problem, because it also means he faces less scrutiny.”
Paul Wells
“He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.”
Jim Kelly
“Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where”
Edward Fitzgerald
“There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.”
Wayne Coyne