Quotes About Utter Despair

#1. The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

John Lancaster Spalding

#2. There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.

Robert Musil

#3. I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#4. No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

#5. At some point, we all have to let go.

Amanda Crew

#6. It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.

Danny McBride

#7. The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Michel Ocelot

#9. I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being alone ( glorious) on the other it's the utter despair and pain of being alone..

Anubhav Mishra

#10. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.

V. Raymond Edman

#11. How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.

Dane Cook

#12. I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Armand Hammer

#14. When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man ... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

Ernest Becker

#15. I chose God over the material universe.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.

Franz Kafka

#17. And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Eleanor Cameron

#18. 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.

Mikhail Bakunin

#19. As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

Philip Yancey

#20. It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Peter Medawar

#21. Mankind is facing a crossroad - one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction - I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road

Woody Allen

#22. At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground

Stephen King

#23. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

#24. Allen: "One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Panic

Stewart Brand

#25. Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal