Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Hope lives in everybody; faith is closer to us than we can imagine! When despair calls you, call your faith and awake… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Her body faded away so far, she almost lost her connection to it. Utter blackness enveloped her, shutting off all warmth. All… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“And then Elena's dog ate her bacon. She had heated up a slice of bacon on a paper towel, put it on… — Chimanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury 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
The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope... — Rumi Copy Share Image
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
