Walter de La Mare Quotes

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.