Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love,… — Laarni Venus Marie Copy Share Image
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs.… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair. — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair:… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
