It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.
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.
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
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.
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.
One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
Gertrude Stein: The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and fut...
With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of h...
