It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being…

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

— Meher Baba

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”

— Nicki Salcedo

“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”

— A.B. Shepherd

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to…

— William F. Lynch

“How can I be made so broken?”

— J Brian Long

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled…

— John-Talmage Mathis

“Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only…

— Orson Bean

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Ümitsizlik özfarkındalık uğruna ödenen bedeldir.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They…

— Marco Rubio

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

— Kay Redfield Jamison