“He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
The day I will see only me in your eyes, that day I will believe love exist in this world and till… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
“If i had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I… — Joseph von Eichendorff Copy Share Image
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven,… — Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Copy Share Image
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness,… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image