We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“ 'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what.' Where I don't forget what… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Knowing the Techniques of Survival........ Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting… — Sebastian K. Young Copy Share Image
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies 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
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image