Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.” — Jane Krainin Copy Share Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
“February, month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
