To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is really sad someone does not like your job, but even more disappointing that you do not drown in despair — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Have you ever been dumped? Don't despair, you've just earned yourself a chance to be loved by someone better! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“We’ll make it work,” he said, a mixture of confidence and despair etched on his face. “If we both want it, we’ll… — Jane Harvey-Berrick Copy Share Image
We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long Coiled, one thousand miles deep Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy Hard… — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
“Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
As I my persona, has imploded into its shell of sadness and despair reach out for help, in a silent voice of… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with.” — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Grief and pain fills my heart with darkness,follewed by despair and hatred within my veins. — Jay Bui Copy Share Image
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what’s a house between drunkards?” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The true evidence of a broken heart, is the feeling of despair when we are apart — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image