...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
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The most important thing is not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past... and recognize that… — One Tree Hill Copy Share Image
“Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry that breast your threshold with their scented gifts. Lift the lyre, clear… — Sappho Copy Share Image
If you should temporarily lose your sense of well-being, don't be too quick to despair. With humility and patience, wait for God… — Thomas A Kempis Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
In an era when we complain about bland drivers, who are very on-message and very professional, Lewis always gives you a feeling… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
Playing with someones life is sign of loser ,& Playing with your own life for someone is sign of ______________? fill it… — Shafique Ahmed Copy Share Image
“No one was there – or if there was, He/It was cowering from her. God had turned His face away, and why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To all thinking about hurting yourself over your despair: it will get better if you allow it to...it always does. Now please… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Despair demands less of us, it’s more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image