And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
“People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of… — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times.… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“He was almost there, ready to hang up his wings, to leave behind everyone who mattered to him. To descend into a… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
“despair threatens to overwhelm me.i have no life. my friends only tolerate me, they don't really like me. i'm just useful to… — joanna kendrick Copy Share Image
On this day, countless lifes were born. And just as many lifes will fade away. It will be the same tomorrow, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. But upon my word I sometimes have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkest abyss of despair, when it feels as though hope has perished, remember this—the pages of life are never… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Her skin is cold, and clammy; her eyes are the color of sky, on the grey, wet days that leach the world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She made herself look. To face down that place of pain and despair. It would always leave a mark, a stain on… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
