Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Patience is our safeguard against doubt and despair and is the key to our serenity.” — Na'ima B. Robert Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Optimism is America's birthright… There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…there is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
