Edmund Burke Quotes

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.