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
“We will all go through despair in our lifetime. It's what we do with it, that will help us achieve our greatness.” — Timothy Pina 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
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
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch 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
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“If only I could cry. I am beyond that. The light, the light, lending itself to empty downtown Saturday, but still the… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My… — Czesław Miłosz 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
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
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
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven… — Rahul Copy Share Image
“There was a fine line between holding steady and dipping into despair.” — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through. — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
