[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long Coiled, one thousand miles deep Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy Hard… — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other; to keep the despair only as great as on all… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
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