“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate,… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts! — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
