“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on… — Justice Aaron Fowler Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine” — Amber Koneval Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I… — Joseph von Eichendorff Copy Share Image
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven,… — Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What unites us is our despair. Do other people wish to know that someone else walked this earth with a similar batch… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image