It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise — John Cleese Copy Share Image
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. — Auguste Napier Copy Share Image
“Despair may torment your soul but peace can rise through the storms of life to help heal you. Never forget to maintain… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is a Monster. It rips you apart, grabs hold of your heart and traps someone inside. This person might not want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives that we stumble and fall. We disappoint and we fail. Most of the time we find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The road of doubt leads to the dead-end of despair. Time to change directions!" HS/el” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Yeah,” sighed Jane. “I suppose. But that’s the problem. I can cope with despair. But hope keeps fucking me up.” — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous 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
Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“When you are in the darkness of despair, the moment hope appears in your mind, lights appear around you!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I find myself standing on the edge of a pool of despair, filled by my tears...but not today.” — Judith Sanders Copy Share Image
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Disappointment,Defeat,Despair are the tools God uses to show us our way... (Paulo Coelho)” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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