At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, nor our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“The tiny specks float down around me as despair breaks every bone in my body one by one until I'm nothing but… — Ellie Messe Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The judge took into account “the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…” As if a man couldn’t be as… — Zidrou Copy Share Image
Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working,… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair.… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it feels like dying is the only way out of this mess. I've never felt so much despair. But I don't… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
“In my despair I remember that there is life after death; there is life after death and I have no problem. But… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
