She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with,… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“When you face the worst situation, what do you do? Do you cry? No! With positive mentality you can graciously overcome the… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair?… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and… — Patricia Christian Punches Copy Share Image
Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
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