The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste… — James Alan Gardner Copy Share Image
“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?” — Ched Myers Copy Share Image
“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through… — Kyle M. Scott Copy Share Image
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler… He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Be assured that joy will rise again, and hope will forever shine its light against despair's dark torment and bitter heartbreak.” — R. O. Mercer Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Better not, I decided: hope was even more dangerous than despair. What” — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
“Let the darkness transform into rock across the wilderness of my memory” — Xiaobo Liu Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
