“They never get the chance to experience the blessing of loss, the gift of despair, and the richness of forced introspection.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow. — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine” — Amber Koneval Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first… — Jeff Iorg Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope.… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He wanted to laugh. Only, the sound wouldn't come out. He couldn't summon even a wry humor, not anymore. Light! I can't… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…there is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Take heart and remember that it is in our darkest moments of despair... that we are most like God.” — Eliot Rahal Copy Share Image
“despair all ye mortals,” he said in a voice of doom. “the mama approacheth” — Lexi George Copy Share Image
I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on… — Justice Aaron Fowler Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Patience is our safeguard against doubt and despair and is the key to our serenity.” — Na'ima B. Robert Copy Share Image
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all through despair and hope, through faith and love. Rafiki — The Lion King Copy Share Image
