Slough Of Despond Quotes

#1. What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

Karen Armstrong

#2. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Farley Mowat

#3. I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

Harlan Ellison

#5. I always feel inclined to blame Evangelist for some of the discomfort that poor Christian suffered in the Slough of Despond.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

Gloria Vanderbilt

#7. It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

Fareed Zakaria

#8. The name of the Slough was Despond.

John Bunyan

#9. Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

Stephanie Klein

#10. Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

Lee Daniels

#11. Rose was the one who knew the path, but these were the things Rose knew, and I wondered if maybe it was this knowing the back of things, the shortcuts, the forgotten stories, that gives you the right to call a place home.

Catherine Landis

#12. Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

T.E. Lawrence