Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
“Let the darkness transform into rock across the wilderness of my memory” — Xiaobo Liu Copy Share Image
I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Hope lives in everybody; faith is closer to us than we can imagine! When despair calls you, call your faith and awake… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a… — Jreys Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Light and Dark, Perfect Balance, Screaming, Giggling, along the edge of a razor; feet bleeding, blood flowing down each side in equal… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the grey drizzle… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“ Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch; And over them triumphant Death his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Without the despair of today we can’t experience the joy of tomorrow.” — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
