(270 quotes found)
“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”
Satish Kumar
“Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them”
Benjamin Franklin
“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Albert Camus
“If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.”
Robert Graves
“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there”
Robert Frost
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
Anthony Robbins
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
Joan Baez
