Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.
The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair. " If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
I am not made for despair
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.