To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H. G. Wells 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
The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
