It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive… — William James Copy Share Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over.… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet at least he had believed in the cars, maybe to excess: how could he not, seeing people poorer than him come… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter,… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“if you have 100 locked doors having passed fifty of them despair can make you go back through 50 hope can make… — Tarek Samy Copy Share Image
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with,… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the… — Barbara Pease Copy Share Image
“If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
“One day when we feel less embarrassed about it all, the next generation's great poet will write an elegy for the despair… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image