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
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
“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
True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair. — Mariana Fulger 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
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
There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas - (Count Of Monte Cristo Copy Share Image
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket and gave it… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“Colonialism had its way with making us believe we were inadequate, if we mimicked the lifestyle and values it upheld, we were… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence… — Elias Chacour Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of… — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals,… — Thomas Merton 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
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
“Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.” — Karen Armstrong 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
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
“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
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
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
