(270 quotes found)
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
Benjamin Banneker
“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it”
Oscar Wilde
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits”
William Shakespeare
“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
Buddha
“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
John Calvin
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair”
William Cowper
“It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding”
Elton John
“To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.”
Albert Camus
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
Pope John Paul II
