It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.” — Cloe Madanes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy.… — Karen Marie Moning 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
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to… — Samurai Champloo Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them… — Evadne Price Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“Something of the same strain and anguish seems to have entered the soul of ivilised man. He knows there is something better… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was agony and despair and fear. It was joy and laughter and rest. It was life, all of it...” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.” — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair. — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
