Quotes about Despair
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
- Elyse Fitzpatrick
Existence, after losing her, would be hell.
- Emily Bronte
Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
- Emily Bronte
She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.
- Emily Bronte
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
- Emily Bronte
It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.
- Emily Bronte
he's the only person I have to love in the world. But you, Heathcliff, have no one to love you, and nobody to cry for you when you die!
- Emily Bronte
You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
- Emily Bronte
While I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored
- Emily Bronte
And my heart aches, in hopeless pain Exhausted with repinings vain, That I shall greet them ne'er again!
- Emily Bronte
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
- Amy Grant
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
- Erwin McManus