Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My dreams are restless, the past rising up to haunt me or delight me by turn. The dark dreams take me back… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
“Secret kabals of vegetarians habitually gather under the sign to exchange contraband from beyond the Vegetable Barrier. In their pinpoint eyes dances… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of… — Byron Forrest Yawn Copy Share Image
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Doubt them. Question them, suspect them¦and take a good, long look into their hearts. Humans are the kind of beings who cant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Life's big questions are big in the sense that they are momentuous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“We all get in a funk sometimes. It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and… — Patricia Christian Punches Copy Share Image
Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
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