Despair Quotes - Page 7

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

It had been so long since she had felt anything.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right words.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better."

Nothing will make me feel better, she thought, but she drank it down. It was hot and sweet. Mr. Humphreys must have put his entire month's sugar ration into it.

She drained the cup, feeling ashamed of herself. She wasn't the only one who'd had a bad night.