“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times.… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
You know that feeling? When you're just waiting to get home into your room, close the door, fall into bed. Just let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and… — Jess Rothenberg 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
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as… — Thomas Merton 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
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“ A Wish on the Sun " "I see the world beyond a tiny window that allows a glimpse of Heaven into… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
