At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a… — Jreys Copy Share Image
People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“To whomever is writing this book, what do you want from me? I need to know my calling. Why was I chosen?… — K. Jared Hosein Copy Share Image
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
