To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
A thousand lies have made me colder and I don't think I can look at this the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going… — Diyar Harraz Copy Share Image
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we… — Chris Bradford Copy Share Image
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how different I am The outside of me is not afraid Not full of pain, or even ashamed I smile… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
There is nothing that will add depth to despair like the feeling of deserving it — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
