I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If in doubt, worry or despair connect with the God light within you, the only barrier to God's wisdom is a lack… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Despair is the barbarism of loneliness. Losing nearly all hope, is barbaric.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
“When you are in the darkness of despair, the moment hope appears in your mind, lights appear around you!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I find myself standing on the edge of a pool of despair, filled by my tears...but not today.” — Judith Sanders Copy Share Image
“Disappointment,Defeat,Despair are the tools God uses to show us our way... (Paulo Coelho)” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My dreams are restless, the past rising up to haunt me or delight me by turn. The dark dreams take me back… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come… — Jamie Schoffman Copy Share Image
“I DRAW A HOT SORROW BATH IN MY DESPAIR ROOM WITH A MISERY CANDLE BURNING I WASH MY HAIR WITH REGRET SHAMPOO… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you. — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A hero is born out of the ashes of despair, anyone can be a hero, it takes courage to stand up for… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose. — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Nothing granted the providence to outdo time, and so he determined it was a spiritual lacking and trained harder in prayer.” — Kajoch Copy Share Image