“As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
