Quotes About Despair

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Without hope we are lost.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

There is no worse death than the end of hope.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.