Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — Salman Rushdie 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
People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
