There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“What you need in the darkness of despair is not the changing of your circumstances but light to see the face of… — George O. Wood Copy Share Image
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“One of the saddest realities in life: Sometimes, no matter how much, how long, and how hard you love someone, it will… — Xy-sa Rhea Copy Share Image
“I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud,” said Louisa Boggs. “He was a sad man . . . he seemed… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
“We remained there some time, then went back into the other galleries of the museum. In the interval more people had arrived,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
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