Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness,… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“He’d stood across the street for several minutes, on the verge of making a move, but in the end he’d turned away… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe?… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world… — Greg Baxter Copy Share Image
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The words “I love you” could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“It is strange, but living is constructing memories. Right now, here in front of the sea, I know that I am creating… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
I despair of reality television, but I've never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, 'I watch it, but I hate… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image