Quotes and Sayings about Despair

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Magic: The Gathering () - Crude Rampart

Success Inspiration

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

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

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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.

Grief & Condolence Missing Someone Loss

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

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.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

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.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Memories Death Grief & Condolence

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

Immanuel Kant

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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.

Butters Stotch in South Park - Season 7 Episode 14

Life Breakup Grief & Condolence

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.

Vada in My Girl

Desire Death Grief & Condolence

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

Mrs. Maple in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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

George Eliot

Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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

Maurice Sendak

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Love Grief & Condolence

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

Thornton Wilder in The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Love Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eldest

Death Grief & Condolence

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.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Dreaming Breakup Grief & Condolence

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.

The Crow

Love Grief & Condolence

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

Thornton Wilder

Life Love Death Grief & Condolence

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

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

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

Helmut Schmidt

Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

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

Ice Cube

Motivation Doubt

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

Bertrand Russell

Doubt

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

LeBron James - Olympia 2012 - nach Vorrundenspiel gegen Argentinien

Doubt

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

Denise Levertov

Doubt

To entertain doubt is to dance with death.

Izaro in Path of Exile

Doubt

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

Max Verstappen

Doubt

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

Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street

Doubt

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

Batou in Ghost in the Shell

Doubt

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

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

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

Kit Harington

Actors Doubt

Doubt is the greatest enemy.

Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman in League of Legends

Doubt

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

Daniel Radcliffe

Actors Doubt

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

Hosea Ballou

Truth Doubt

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

Wilson Mizner

Education Doubt

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Miguel de Unamuno

Faith Doubt

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Forgiveness & Mercy

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Lies

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

War

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

Magic: The Gathering - Squandered Resources

No rest. No mercy. No matter what.

Magic: The Gathering - Akroma's Memorial

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

Usher

Success

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.

Christian McCaffrey

Success

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Inspiration

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

Rod Serling

Writing Ideas Inspiration

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

Foolishness

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

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire

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

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

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.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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