Quotes
Quotes about Despair
'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,--the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Th' ethereal mould
Incapable of stain would soon expel
Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,
Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd,--wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse.
Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
His noble negligences teach
What others' toils despair to reach.
Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.
'T is sweeter for thee despairing
Than aught in the world beside,--Jessy!
O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
Hark! to the hurried question of despair:
"Where is my child?"--an echo answers, "Where?
Farewell!
For in that word, that fatal word,--howe'er
We promise, hope, believe,--there breathes despair.
Then black despair,
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair;
And they heard the words it said,--
"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!"
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Despair the twin-born of devotion.
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
From the winter's gray despair,
From the summer's golden languor,
Death, the lover of Life,
Frees us for ever.
The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
And the Warder is Despair.
As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
