The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. — John Donne Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
As I my persona, has imploded into its shell of sadness and despair reach out for help, in a silent voice of… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long Coiled, one thousand miles deep Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy Hard… — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
