Despair Quotes - Page 6

• La melancolía y la tristeza son el comienzo de la duda... la duda es el comienzo de la desesperación; la desesperación es el cruel comienzo de los diferentes grados de maldad.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Sadness, Doubt, Degrees

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• Es curioso cómo actuamos en momentos de desesperación personal.

  Lawrence Welk

  Moments, Curious

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Condesa de Blessington

  Religion, Atheism, Resignation

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• Law is born from despair of human nature.

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Law, Human Nature, Born

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Depth, Reckless, Ripple

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Incentives, Honorable Death, Honorable

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Needs

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• Hay que trabajar, si no por inclinación, al menos por desesperación. Considerándolo todo, trabajar es menos aburrido que divertirse.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boring, Amusing, Work Effort

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• Que los jueces desesperen secretamente de la justicia: sus veredictos serán más agudos. Que los generales desesperen secretamente del triunfo: matar será difamado. Que los sacerdotes desesperen secretamente de la fe: su compasión será verdadera.

  Leonard Cohen

  Compasión, Justicia, Juzgar

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• Para ser feliz se necesita seguridad, pero la alegría puede brotar como una flor incluso de los acantilados de la desesperación.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Felicidad, Primavera, Flor

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). "Habitaciones cerradas y puertas abiertas", Not Avail

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• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  Raymond Williams

  Inevitable, Radical, Convincing

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Hope, Cry, Young

  Bernard Berenson, Umberto Morra Di Lavriano (1963). “Colloqui con Berenson”

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• Del mismo modo que la desesperación sólo puede venir de otros seres humanos, la esperanza sólo puede venir de otros seres humanos.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirador, positivo, alentador

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• In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Perpetual, Idleness

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• La desesperación es la materia prima de un cambio drástico. Sólo aquellos capaces de dejar atrás todo aquello en lo que han creído pueden esperar escapar.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Raw Materials

  William S. Burroughs (1988). "Las tierras del Oeste", Penguin Group USA

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• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Patience, Neighbour

  Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212

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• Blues are the songs of despair.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Canción

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). "Movin' on Up", New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Play, Shining

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  David McCullough

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Battle

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• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

  William Dunbar

  Emotional, Ironic, Mirth

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• God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Grace, Canvas

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2016

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• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Cristóbal Colón

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Carta a los Soberanos, Cuarto Viaje, 07 th Of July de 1503.

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• Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Inspire, Events

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• Así que el que desespera, limita un Poder Infinito a una Aprehensión Finita, y mide la Providencia por su propio pequeño y contraído Modelo.

  Robert Sur

  Littles, Limits, Anticipation

  "Doce sermones predicados en varias ocasiones".

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• If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Bridges, Water, Way

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). "La conspiración de Acuario: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s", Tarcher

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