Pastoral Resources

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.