“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope… — Edith M. Thomas Copy Share Image
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better." Nothing will make me feel better, she thought, but she… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“... he'd awoken alone, and the simple fact of the silent room and the empty bed beside him filled him with such… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Challenges are part of life; We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope. But we strengthen our spirit,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but… — Bodie Thoene Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue:… — Stanley Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
“If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for you everything is lost, eternity does… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him… — Frantz Fanon 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
You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Despair threatened to drag me down, but I fought it back, clinging to a single, flickering thought. Shay loves me. He would… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can argue that true death only happens when the last bit of influence of yourself leaves this world and no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
