I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible.” — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness,… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven,… — Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Bast's eyes were now the pale blue-white of lightning, his voice tight and fierce. "And I swear by the night and sky… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this. — Paul Stewart Copy Share Image
I feel it in me so overwhelmed. Oh, this pressured center rising my life overturned unfair the despair. All these scars keep… — Mudvayne Copy Share Image
“What you need in the darkness of despair is not the changing of your circumstances but light to see the face of… — George O. Wood Copy Share Image
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Grumble weakens the spirit. Despair is counterproductive. Both are true toxicants in life.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I owe you an apology and you owe me sorry...We owe our both selves an equal peace to move on. — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
