Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“It is funny how we often want what we cannot have. What do we do in these prickly moments of disorientation and… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
“Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The words “I love you” could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“wrapped my heart in fury to keep the despair at bay as I knelt on the sodden grass of the riverbank to… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel 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
“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the… — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Hope hard!!! Sadness, disappointment and despair HAVE TO FLEE in the presence of HOPE! — Rev Run Copy Share Image
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about. — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I thought nothing; I didn’t even despair; I was just stupefied and grey and dead.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
