“To have despair is human...for we all have problems that at times burden us. To rise above your trials and tribulations, sadness,… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can argue that true death only happens when the last bit of influence of yourself leaves this world and no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous 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
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare 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
Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other.… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make… — Bono Copy Share Image
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
