Pastoral Resources

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.