“Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in… — Nicholas Schmidt Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whiningsallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, suchcrass food, crass manners, crass landscape!!...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold,… — Matthew Jobin Copy Share Image
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Sadly...despair is with humanity and will affect all of us sooner or later. To accomplish the great things we were put on… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope… — Henri Nouwen 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
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, this rage builds up inside me and I...I feel like it's eating me alive. Like soon there'll be nothing left of… — Erica Spindler Copy Share Image