“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
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Take heart and remember that it is in our darkest moments of despair... that we are most like God.” — Eliot Rahal Copy Share Image
“despair all ye mortals,” he said in a voice of doom. “the mama approacheth” — Lexi George Copy Share Image
I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“They never get the chance to experience the blessing of loss, the gift of despair, and the richness of forced introspection.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow. — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do, a total… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
