The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Nothing says despair, broken dreams and poor life choices more than a Denny's at 3am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.” — David P. Ingerson Copy Share Image
“It seemed to cast a spell on her as all her earlier despair disappeared and as she went back inside she was… — Anne Allen Copy Share Image
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness,… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair. — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A cry of despair escaped her lips. When had she fallen in love with him?” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear. — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
