There is nothing that will add depth to despair like the feeling of deserving it — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. Longing to be touched by you,… — Preeti Bhonsle Copy Share Image
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving,… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but… — Bodie Thoene Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Butterfly There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“From early childhood he had experienced the wish to die, to commit suicide, as they say, but never was totally concentrated. He… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Jonathan’s arm jerked to the side in clumsy reaction, tipping over the bottle of ink that sat on the desk beside his… — Sondra Allan Carr Copy Share Image
“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?” — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
A thousand lies have made me colder and I don't think I can look at this the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“He’s not mine. The only thing that’s truly mine is this bottomless despair.” — Lola St.Vil Copy Share Image
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
