“If he had uttered the word “come” she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres;… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Merciful Heavens! But what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I think the word despair is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, despair… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair?… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
One will hope they will never have one of those moments, but of course, hope is a fruitless thing. You hope for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Stop crying over people who could careless about you , if you're going to cry, at least cry over what deserves your… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do , the where-are-you-from , the what-neighborhood , the what-college , the despair of… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through… — Kyle M. Scott Copy Share Image
“Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler… He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
