I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every time we find a sense of hope, worse things happen that cause us to slide into despair again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Some people forget that one of the greatest weapons against despair is prayer. — Rev Run Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The… — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the… — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
“All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Think of me in the depths of your despair, make a home down there as mine sure won't be shared. — Adele Copy Share Image
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.” — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair. — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if were are not", said the witch, "or die… — Philip pullman Copy Share Image
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization,” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses the love of a child deserves nothing but evil as terrible as the heart you have blackened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
