This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did… — Nicola Clark Copy Share Image
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Hope is Nature's Defibrillator (The Sonnet) Hope is nature's defibrillator that, Electrifies the heart to unsubmission. Hope rescues us from the depths… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. — Eugene Ionesco 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
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have… — Peter Cundall 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 as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Away from the goal Far away I stand from my home. A home unknown Where my heart and spirit must go Thy… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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