Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to…

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees,…

— Paulo Coelho

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick,…

— Elie Wiesel

My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“At times such as these, evenings in the forest, loneliness seized her like a black dog. She kept telling herself it was pure weakness,…

— Jean Zimmerman

We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness.

— Jay Shetty

Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be…

— Louaiq8

“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.”

— Franz Kafka

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

— Henry Vaughan

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls…

— Charlotte Bronte

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to…

— Caroline Myss

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott

“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich