“Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough 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
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI 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
Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault 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
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
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
