Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses the love of a child deserves nothing but evil as terrible as the heart you have blackened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization,” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Instead of wiping away the tears, wipe away the people who made you cry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always "frontal" lobotomy;but was there any… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image