So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not… — Graham Smith Copy Share Image
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and… — William James Copy Share Image
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone,… — Jon Blais Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
