Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
“A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the… — Eyedea 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
“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
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
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
“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
