“Yeah,” sighed Jane. “I suppose. But that’s the problem. I can cope with despair. But hope keeps fucking me up.” — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Secret kabals of vegetarians habitually gather under the sign to exchange contraband from beyond the Vegetable Barrier. In their pinpoint eyes dances… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise — John Cleese Copy Share Image
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all. — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
