Quotes with despair

Quotes 101 till 118 of 118.

  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Molière We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Roy Thompson What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
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  • John Milton What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • William Blake What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Oswald Chambers When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Abbe Pierre When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Avi Arad When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anatole France Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Rohinton Mistry You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 328
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Fuller Despair gives courage to a coward.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Matthew Arnold With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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