Despair Quotes - Page 9

I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Passion burned with unchecked verve, devoured its fuel, andsputtered out. Despair required no upkeep; it heaped barely-glowing coals inthe back of your mind and fuelled itself.

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a strong woman, I can endure it all.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never lose faith, hope and courage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who dare try are heroic souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be positive than negative.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the courage to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t cry for them to be happy. Find courage to overcome the circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

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.

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

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least understands this. One may be able to comprehend all the human perspectives in the universe, but this gives more to decipher regarding what is actually true; and even after discovering the truth, the challenge is in maintaining a patience for the infinite number of opinions that do not reflect that truth. Its consistency in man is challenge. A worldly knowledge ends at the former challenge of confusion, but the knowledge of Christ ends at the latter challenge of patience.

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or "terror in a lonely place," the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. As a mathematician he was free from subjection to reality, free to impose his ideas and designs on his own test environment. The only valid standard for his work, its critical point (zero or infinity), was the beauty it possessed, the deft strength of his mathematical reasoning. THe work's ultimate value was simply what it revealed about the nature of his intellect. What was at stake, in effect, was his own principle of intelligence or individual consciousness; his identity, in short. This was the infalling trap, the source of art's private involvement with obsession and despair, neither more nor less than the artist's self-containment, a mental state that led to storms of overwork and extended stretches of depression, that brought on indifference to life and at times the need to regurgitate it, to seek the level of expelled matter. Of course, the sense at the end of a serious effort, if the end is reached successfully, is one of lyrical exhilaration. There is air to breathe and a place to stand. The work gradually reveals its attachment to the charged particles of other minds, men now historical, the rediscovered dead; to the main structure of mathematical thought; perhaps even to reality itself, the so-called sum of things. It is possible to stand in time's pinewood dust and admire one's own veronicas and pavanes.

Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

Haruki Murakami

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Robert Charles Wilson

Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair!

Ramana Pemmaraju

The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a rent in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself. Such a person is not able to experience himself 'together with' others or 'at home in' the world, but, on the contrary, he experiences himself in despairing aloneness and isolation; moreover, he does not experience himself as a complete person but rather as 'split' in various ways, perhaps as a mind more or less tenuously linked to a body, as two or more selves, and so on.

If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods,Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows?If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs,Why must it follow the samepath to despair?Everyone will tell you:'An orgasm here is just as good.

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don't want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.

Arkady Strugatsky

Something like another wave of despair crashes into me. "I'm so heavy." I blink and a tear slides down my cheek."Then you lean on us for a while. Let us carry you, Joy, until you're not heavy anymore. That's what family is.

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

Anthony Liccione

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Living by faith, living by hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your prayers will certainly be answered. Everyone who asks receives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as you call on God, He will answer you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God knows your every need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope keeps the spirit awake.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give comfort to the suffering souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is the passion to receive your heart’s desires.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord save the suffering souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a great believe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can do great and mighty things by the power of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a great expectancy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair - the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.

We must patiently endure the times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life experiences teaches me to depend absolute on God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We endure every adversity by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The word of God is our glorious light for any dark situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The timeless promises of God are our confident hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is being confident of what we do not see.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God’s grace abounded much more in times of difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to hope than despair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit of divinity lives in you. The power is unlock by faith, hope and courage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never give up on yourself.You have divine abilities for a great mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to forgive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not let your hearts be overwhelmed by adversity. May you have the strength, hope and courage to overcome the situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Look to the Lord in every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of prayer is miraculous!

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every soul craves to fill the void. Only God can satisfy and set us free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity begets spirituality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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