“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You haven't changed after all these years. Still a spoiled brat, but the kindest person of all. I love you -that's why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends… I wish… — Frances Goodrich Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair.… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were… — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
