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
“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
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come… — Jamie Schoffman Copy Share Image
“I DRAW A HOT SORROW BATH IN MY DESPAIR ROOM WITH A MISERY CANDLE BURNING I WASH MY HAIR WITH REGRET SHAMPOO… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith 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
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
“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
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
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that in its most basic definition, existential despair is the painful discrepancy between what is and what should… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace can never be achieved by violence or aggression. Peace only happens when disparity is gone. When fear is driven out, and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not,… — Frederic Tudor Copy Share Image
“Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in… — Joseph O'Neill 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
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
