Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.” — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair....… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
