“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
Finals are coming up. Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole of despair... — Anonymous 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
“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
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile. — Corrado Alvaro Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence,… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Despair will control your life...as far as you let it. Don't let it control your life at all! — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“Isn't that how the world is going to change? By each of us putting ourselves out there, facing despair, and taking care… — Corey Wheeland Copy Share Image
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.” — Jane Krainin Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Never accept despondency. Never lose heart. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
