“When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.” — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the… — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
“All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Think of me in the depths of your despair, make a home down there as mine sure won't be shared. — Adele Copy Share Image
...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair. — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if were are not", said the witch, "or die… — Philip pullman Copy Share Image
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind,… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out,… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“We remained there some time, then went back into the other galleries of the museum. In the interval more people had arrived,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Some people forget that one of the greatest weapons against despair is prayer. — Rev Run Copy Share Image
Every time we find a sense of hope, worse things happen that cause us to slide into despair again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
“I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair, it'll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
