“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Jupiter was a chilly, dark and unfriendly tract of land in which no hope lingered, only despair. There she woke up in… — J.M.K. Walkow Copy Share Image
“Out where the world is in the making, Where fewer hearts in despair are aching, That’s where the West begins” — Arthur Chapman Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Glimpses of fate bring light to your despair. Realise truth isn't short of your grasp. — Hatebreed Copy Share Image
“..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.” — Shannon Hale 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
The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit -… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time?” I sighed. “Yes.” Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In times of deep despair we dethrone Him through our doubt and find Him a failure through our fears. We cling to… — Cherie Hill Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?” — Mitchell Heisman 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
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
“Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world… — Carolyn Jess-Cooke Copy Share Image
Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
