He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights.… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a… — Jreys Copy Share Image
Looking into the eyes of someone who will never love you back is a life of despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image