Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
“The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like… — Sam Taylor Copy Share Image
“Despair will come and go but people that can overcome will last throught it. We must work with children to understand and… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“For some there is no music No lights No fire No untamed madness that breathes life There is work Anguish Frustration Rage… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair, when everything feels like it’s collapsing in on you, and yes, when… — Alisha Rai Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“dew. Their feet scuffed the dark sidewalks. Raymond had two moods now. Despair came with no warning, rogue waves of helplessness that… — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Out of despair, disappointment and pain comes determination, self love & the strength to stand in your own truth, doing your best… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The funny thing about a broken heart is that it's not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues… — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image