A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Isn't that how the world is going to change? By each of us putting ourselves out there, facing despair, and taking care… — Corey Wheeland Copy Share Image
“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone… — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost,… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“To her despair was added a philosophical dejection, the feeling of every thinker who, venturing an inquisitive finger beneath the velvet of… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Despair will control your life...as far as you let it. Don't let it control your life at all! — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up. — Christina Pickles Copy Share Image
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair .” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
And sometimes, our biggest chance for showing our true mettle comes not at the peak of our achievements, but at the nadir… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
