“Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and… — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes."… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Though life may bring us grief and loss, there is always hope in the night. No matter how deep our sorrows may… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“ Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch; And over them triumphant Death his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse… — Laura Tillman Copy Share Image
He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun… — J.R.R.Tolkin Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“We recognized who we were at a glace--all irregulars from the drifting nation of dreamy youth. We're ghosts of those times now,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally… — A.M. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run —… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair.… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunate to feel a sentiment of despair in your own country, like having a doomed love affair and you know… — Mireille Saba Redford Copy Share Image
“Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. Longing to be touched by you,… — Preeti Bhonsle Copy Share Image
Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving,… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
“They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
