So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.” — David P. Ingerson Copy Share Image
The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines. — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to… — Kyle Minor 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
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
