God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Finals are coming up. Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole of despair... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee,… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life,… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and… — Ron Pope Copy Share Image
We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair.… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunate to feel a sentiment of despair in your own country, like having a doomed love affair and you know… — Mireille Saba Redford Copy Share Image
We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile. — Corrado Alvaro Copy Share Image
“My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
All the world's for living when love is what you find. Despair and loneliness, you've got to leave them far behind. — Kansas Copy Share Image
“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.” — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair. — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
