“Do not despair, Lord Snow. Despair is a weapon of the enemy, whose name may not be spoken.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I thought nothing; I didn’t even despair; I was just stupefied and grey and dead.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
“There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“The despair was entire, complete as a possession, but fleeting. It released her, and was gone, but it left Karou gutted, guttered,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For,… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“To other cities, other machines, other forests of buildings of concrete where other men and women missed the stars at night and… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Yet as bad as she felt, it was nothing compared to the stark despair she saw in Rafferty’s eyes. It was so… — Caroline Cross Copy Share Image
Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
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
We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Money dosen't buy happiness but I understand the despair is excellent.” — Phillip Harris Copy Share Image
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about. — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
