“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it? It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because… — Marieke Nijkamp Copy Share Image
“To have despair is human...for we all have problems that at times burden us. To rise above your trials and tribulations, sadness,… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The important thing is to not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past, and recognize that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton 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
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all through despair and hope, through faith and love. Rafiki — The Lion King Copy Share Image
“Patience is our safeguard against doubt and despair and is the key to our serenity.” — Na'ima B. Robert Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible.” — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on… — Justice Aaron Fowler Copy Share Image
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Take heart and remember that it is in our darkest moments of despair... that we are most like God.” — Eliot Rahal Copy Share Image
“A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine” — Amber Koneval Copy Share Image
