“Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind” — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Copy Share Image
Despair is on the top when kindness and tenderness is punished by indifference and rudeness. — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
“There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“There is always hope – hope enough to balance our despair. Or we would be lost.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out,… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Optimism is America's birthright… There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Bast's eyes were now the pale blue-white of lightning, his voice tight and fierce. "And I swear by the night and sky… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
These are the tears ~~ The tears we shed ~~ This is the fear ~~ This is the dread ~~ These are… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope? You yourself must change… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like to gamble. I'd rather win big and lose as well then cling on abjectly and live at the mercy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When despair looms over, keep expectations alive, expectation rediscovers hope. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.” — LeeAnn Taylor Copy Share Image
When in despair & it hurts,it is not healed by time,it just teaches how to live in despair with pains. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ... — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Lord, give me the words I need—Your words—to offer comfort to those in despair. —Rick Hamlin” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.” — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
