When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke 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
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Merry’s mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as… — Susan Catalano Copy Share Image
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Always think thoughts that are productive and positive. For the Law of Attraction possesses your key to either endless misery and woe… — Xavier Streeter Copy Share Image
“But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image