When in despair, we tend to push away the very same people who care. — Bulumko Pantsi Copy Share Image
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
“Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“What you need in the darkness of despair is not the changing of your circumstances but light to see the face of… — George O. Wood Copy Share Image
I feel it in me so overwhelmed. Oh, this pressured center rising my life overturned unfair the despair. All these scars keep… — Mudvayne Copy Share Image
Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this. — Paul Stewart Copy Share Image
“Grumble weakens the spirit. Despair is counterproductive. Both are true toxicants in life.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“Helen dared to look up without being invited to do so. “I cannot thank you enough for your kindness, Lady Consort.” “Kindness… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image