Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
~ I guess coincidence may repeat itself, including all the pain and trouble that I felt from the first time. ~ — Vince Copy Share Image
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.” — Eleanor Cameron Copy Share Image
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“It may be safe to walk, but where do you go when all directions wear the same black ashen despair?” — Stephanie Hemphill Copy Share Image
“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of… — Byron Forrest Yawn Copy Share Image
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Knowing the Techniques of Survival… Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting… — Sebastian K. Young Copy Share Image
“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free,… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
