Quotes and Sayings about Despair

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

I love life. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like... it makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade. You thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow, stop your tears. There is something to calm you fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart. But I know he'll always be in your heart.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, all those who live without love.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Eragon: "The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living."

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

You're only concerned if you know you don't have it. We have it.

Every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.

To entertain doubt is to dance with death.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

Doubt is the greatest enemy.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

"Mercy is the sweetest wine and the bitterest wormwood," Eliss, the mother, said. "For it rewards the merciful and shames the guilty."

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.

No rest. No mercy. No matter what.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

A fool is any man who doesn't think he's a fool.

I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.