Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The universe, once a source of wonder, now felt like a cruel jester playing with his fragile heart. — Melissa, Ch. 19” — Jacklyn A. Lo Copy Share Image
“Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“He's the light that guided me to where I am now, out of the darkness, out of despair.” — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
One will hope they will never have one of those moments, but of course, hope is a fruitless thing. You hope for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair?… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore. — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
“Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Optimism…is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Sadly despair is usually the #1 teacher of spirituality~uniting us together in our darkness...leading us to light!✌ @800273TALK” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.” — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Mister, do you regret meeting me? If I fall too deep in happiness¦ it might just kill me.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“This newfangled country is starting to grow on me, the adult despair of it all. Stuff I can relate to: lost loves,… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
When you find yourself in trying times remember that in all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up. — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
![“Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.” quote by Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/339/arthur-helps-5833_chains_be-cheerful-and-grateful-for-the-good-th_1063388.png)
