“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like… — Sam Taylor Copy Share Image
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
“For some there is no music No lights No fire No untamed madness that breathes life There is work Anguish Frustration Rage… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Despair will come and go but people that can overcome will last throught it. We must work with children to understand and… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
“It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a… — Alina Bronsky Copy Share Image
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“Hope lives in everybody; faith is closer to us than we can imagine! When despair calls you, call your faith and awake… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Light and Dark, Perfect Balance, Screaming, Giggling, along the edge of a razor; feet bleeding, blood flowing down each side in equal… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
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![“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.” quote by Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/574/brandon-sanderson-112_desert_deserters-they-ve-given-up-everything-oa_1625218.jpg)
