The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett 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
“But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All the world's for living when love is what you find. Despair and loneliness, you've got to leave them far behind. — Kansas Copy Share Image
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I do not mean the difficulty. I do not mean the sex. I mean there are too many failings. Not enough hope.… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time?” I sighed. “Yes.” Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In times of deep despair we dethrone Him through our doubt and find Him a failure through our fears. We cling to… — Cherie Hill Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.” — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile. — Corrado Alvaro Copy Share Image
“My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Finals are coming up. Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole of despair... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Never accept despondency. Never lose heart. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.” — Jane Krainin Copy Share Image
“How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
