Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“He gasped in despair while he wrote to her knowing everything is going to end. He: Why did you ruin my image… — Anonymus Autor Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven,… — Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The universe, once a source of wonder, now felt like a cruel jester playing with his fragile heart. — Melissa, Ch. 19” — Jacklyn A. Lo Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“And I am weary of the anguish Increasing winters bear; Weary to watch the spirit languish Through years of dead despair. So,… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
