“They never get the chance to experience the blessing of loss, the gift of despair, and the richness of forced introspection.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Despair will destroy you...If you allow it too. Please... don't let it destroy you!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“More brave than firm, and more disposed to dare And die at once than wrestle with despair...” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“In my despair I remember that there is life after death; there is life after death and I have no problem. But… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no… — David Ignatow 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
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it feels like dying is the only way out of this mess. I've never felt so much despair. But I don't… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
“He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him,… — Cassandra Clare 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
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters,… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Everyone will encounter despair in their lifetime. It takes a champion to overcome it. Be that champion!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“His despair was delicious when I told him what I'd done to her. What I would make you into. Not a child… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
