People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“It’s the only thing that keeps us from despair when we look at what humans have done to the world.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When a girl says she won't break your heart. Listen to how she says I love you, it will determine if her… — Gian Lewis Joseph Copy Share Image
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end-… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts… — Neal S. Dow Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot… — Coldheart Copy Share Image
“The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And… — Laura Buzo Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment. — James Fox Copy Share Image
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
“My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other; to keep the despair only as great as on all… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little… — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
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