1,310 Quotes About Despair

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Abundance is the truth and the remedy.Whatever your loss or despair,Love resides not in the past nor the future.It dwells untapped within you and all around you – now.Connect with its unstoppable, ever-flowing and eternal, creative force. God is always present and joy always available.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.