I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.” — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a… — Junior Isaac Copy Share Image
“They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was like looking in a mirror. The same flickering hope in Loo, the same desperate need to be loved, was right… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The important thing is to not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past, and recognize that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“It was agony and despair and fear. It was joy and laughter and rest. It was life, all of it...” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.” — Cloe Madanes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image
