Quotes about Despair

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.