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Despaired
«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.»
«The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
deserve, despair, Despaired, despairs, exceeds, girl, If I were a, supplied with, supply, supply a, The Men
«It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.»
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
adversity, careless, Despaired, despairing, despairs, prescience, prosperity, senseless, suffer, Things to Come, understanding
«For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: / But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: / Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; / Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.»
«If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.»
«Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
despair, Despaired, despairs, kindness, manifestations, resolution, signing, signs, sign in, sign on, sign over, sign up, strength, tenderness, weakness
«She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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