Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little… — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
“It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the… — George Wither Copy Share Image
“But if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life;… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I lost my sister, Gennie, to my silence and her pain and despair, to both our angers and to a world’s cruelty… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Look Closer... Do you see any fucking rainbows and puppies here? The Jester sleeps, Poor bastard. I am he, More or Less.… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image