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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. — George Eliot

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight. — Paulo Coelho

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go. — Sarah McLachlan

long months of despondency I could — Timothy Egan

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet. — Ezra Taft Benson

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper. — F.B. Meyer

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship. — Henry Ward Beecher

MEMORY is frequently the bondslave of despondency. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity. — Donna Lynn Hope

Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency. — Bertrand Russell

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert Johnson

There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. — Kate Chopin

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. — Swami Vivekananda

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in. — Charles Dickens

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is. — Dennis Garvin

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. — Richard Brookhiser

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. — William Manchester

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross. — C.S. Lewis

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair. — Ezra Taft Benson

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. — Thomas Sowell

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. — Baruch Spinoza

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker--far quicker--than a germ. — John Steinbeck

So, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, — Jane Austen

We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy. — Billy Graham

The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure. — James Gates Percival