When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately… — Lolah Runda Copy Share Image
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts! — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone,… — Jon Blais Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world,… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate,… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
“I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
“Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I owe you an apology and you owe me sorry...We owe our both selves an equal peace to move on. — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Grumble weakens the spirit. Despair is counterproductive. Both are true toxicants in life.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this. — Paul Stewart Copy Share Image
I feel it in me so overwhelmed. Oh, this pressured center rising my life overturned unfair the despair. All these scars keep… — Mudvayne Copy Share Image
“What you need in the darkness of despair is not the changing of your circumstances but light to see the face of… — George O. Wood Copy Share Image
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image