Quotes about Despair
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
- Martin Luther
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
- Henri Nouwen
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
- Charles G. Dawes
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- Thomas Merton
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
- Pierre Corneille
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.
- Henry Reed
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
- John Milton
Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
- CS Lewis
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
- Edith Wharton
He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.
- Edith Wharton