“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits 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
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting… — Jason Gedrick Copy Share Image
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness… — David Richo 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
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
“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
The question why, at least in my life, often leads to despair. Why did this happen to me? Why didn't someone who… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
