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
“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
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
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
I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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