Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“His despair was delicious when I told him what I'd done to her. What I would make you into. Not a child… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they are concocting a plan to steal Mona away from The Shade… thus leaving it utterly defenseless. Despair clawed at my… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Dont despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes thats how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“Say a prayer for those in despair. May all their tomorrows be sunny and bright... filled with hope to conquer over all… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves our of despair.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair. — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
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