Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once again, in my greatest hour of despair, I seek refuge in her chaos.” — Kamil Alvi Copy Share Image
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at… — Susan Heather Copy Share Image
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
If I died today would you notice? Would you care? Would you weep in despair? Would you wonder at all, If my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Be a light today for all in despair. In hope that if you should fall...they will light your way tomorrow! — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It's nonsensical the way you tickle my ventricles and use many magical mirrors to show me I'm identical to everything that's invincible.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
