...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is… — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities. ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
“Some men turn away from all this cheap emotion with a kind of heroic despair…But this too can be an error. For… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“think a person who has a subdued settled despair in his mind would all of a sudden feel a kind of bounding… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
“Lately I’ve had to redefine the word “knowledge” to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I’m dealing not in careless absurdities here… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“What drew him towards the outside was not the student, not the goat, not even the man in the down-at-heel shoes who… — Albert Cossery Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief.… — Mona Caird Copy Share Image
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
If crying can manipulate pain away and wash away things to make yourself feel better..Well I guess it doesn't work that way.I… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“The suffering, the despair in this place, is like a wave. It rolls out of every bed, smashes against the moldy walls… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way; it is just a darkness and you can… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“I fear, I despair, I die and I live again through my hope. How many times have I not been dead and… — Joyce Akesson Copy Share Image
“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and… — Sandy Welch Copy Share Image
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord;… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
~Everyone doesn't want to lose what they hold dear, but once they do; they break. Even we don't want to, it will… — Vince Copy Share Image
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness… — William F. Lynch Copy Share Image
