The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
“despair all ye mortals,” he said in a voice of doom. “the mama approacheth” — Lexi George Copy Share Image
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One can argue that true death only happens when the last bit of influence of yourself leaves this world and no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Butterfly There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Jonathan’s arm jerked to the side in clumsy reaction, tipping over the bottle of ink that sat on the desk beside his… — Sondra Allan Carr Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“From early childhood he had experienced the wish to die, to commit suicide, as they say, but never was totally concentrated. He… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Have you ever been dumped? Don't despair, you've just earned yourself a chance to be loved by someone better! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’ll make it work,” he said, a mixture of confidence and despair etched on his face. “If we both want it, we’ll… — Jane Harvey-Berrick Copy Share Image
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
It is really sad someone does not like your job, but even more disappointing that you do not drown in despair — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what’s a house between drunkards?” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
“I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with.” — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Grief and pain fills my heart with darkness,follewed by despair and hatred within my veins. — Jay Bui Copy Share Image
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image