Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. — Ashraf Ghani 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
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
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
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Only last Sunday, when poor wretches were gay—within the walls playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials.… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our… — Dwan J. Young Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.” — Susan R. Sloan Copy Share Image
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope.” — Stephen Richards 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
“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
“I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.” — Jack Gilbert 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
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
“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
“Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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