Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Despair will destroy you...If you allow it too. Please... don't let it destroy you!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“More brave than firm, and more disposed to dare And die at once than wrestle with despair...” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do, a total… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled,… — Josephus Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“He gasped in despair while he wrote to her knowing everything is going to end. He: Why did you ruin my image… — Anonymus Autor Copy Share Image
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. — Starhawk Copy Share Image