Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was,… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“…there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.” — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“If you cast your bait after the fish have passed, you will only catch despair.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind,… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…there is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Time makes a wound fester and rot, magnifying the pain into brooding despair” — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
TRUE love is sharing both joyous and despairing moments. It is having each other in thoughts and in heart even physically far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are so many experiences waiting for me, I decided it would be better to put aside despair.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't despair when things don't go your way, maybe you were meant to be detoured. — Lori Noebe Copy Share Image
“Despair can only destroy you...if you allow it to. Don't allow it to destroy you! — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“If you settle for despair, there is nothing I or anyone else can do to help you.” — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
Salah already played in England. He has high skills at dribbling, tempo and finishing and he makes defenders despair. — Joel Matip Copy Share Image
“When you face the worst situation, what do you do? Do you cry? No! With positive mentality you can graciously overcome the… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Be a ripple of hope to all in despair. It will change their lives and yours!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
