We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It may be safe to walk, but where do you go when all directions wear the same black ashen despair?” — Stephanie Hemphill Copy Share Image
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. — John Donne Copy Share Image
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Instead of wiping away the tears, wipe away the people who made you cry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I… — Joseph von Eichendorff Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot… — Coldheart Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home. Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“. I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
~ I guess coincidence may repeat itself, including all the pain and trouble that I felt from the first time. ~ — Vince Copy Share Image
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses the love of a child deserves nothing but evil as terrible as the heart you have blackened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization,” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“he knows that Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“To Tabitha, these are facts of history. For those of us who endured them, they are a time of despair, bewilderment and… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason. It may seem the worst has happened. Wait out long enough and you will see it turns… — Myself Copy Share Image
The tears in my heart are like long ,deep, jagged, shards of glass, slowly cutting glacial casyms. …deeper… that only you can… — Jory Neville Copy Share Image
“You burn like hell, pure red and stormy and I fly like smoke, pure black and gloomy.” — Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image