Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every time we find a sense of hope, worse things happen that cause us to slide into despair again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Some people forget that one of the greatest weapons against despair is prayer. — Rev Run Copy Share Image
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt them. Question them, suspect them¦and take a good, long look into their hearts. Humans are the kind of beings who cant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants… — John Webster Copy Share Image
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always "frontal" lobotomy;but was there any… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In a world where truth has become negotiable, blockchain emerged as the last honest ledger.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair. — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Dear Daughter, Do not seek help from anyone who cannot wait to see you on the brink of despair.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
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