Quotes About Despondency

Puis elle remontait, fermait la porte, étalait les charbons, et, défaillant à la chaleur du foyer, sentait l'ennui plus lourd qui retombait sur elle. Elle serait bien descendue causer avec la bonne, mais une pudeur la retenait.

Love did not help. The possibility of love only filled him with despondency and languor, as though he was sick in the soul. If only he had never known Manna; if only ehe could get back into his old rut again; if only he could return to an undisturbed, contented life.

Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.

When Lincoln was thirty-two, he wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living.

The verb "un-man" is defined in a nineteenth-century dictionary as "to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish." In other words, there was a sense that truly going off the deep end—being unable to work or function, as happens in the disease of depression—ran contrary to true masculinity.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.

Such despondency is rarely psychologically devastating, but when combined with defensive reasoning, it can result in a formidable predisposition against learning.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water

It's just ordinary hopelessness.

I have lost the will to change

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

The scenery is colorless and depressing. It looks as though life in Hell is very harsh. And lonely. Very, very lonely.

He felt sad, sad.

La tristeza se había cristalizado en indiferencia.

the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.

Grief is a species of idleness.

In his despondency, he concluded that he had no judgment whatever, that he was hypnotized by what he wrote, and that he was a self-deluded pretender.

Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.

If you would shield your body, defend your thoughts. If you will renew your body, decorate your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, unhappiness, despondency, rob the body of its health and style. A sour face does no longer come through chance; it's far made with the aid of sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, ardour, and pride.