The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I think the word despair is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, despair… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“September 25 Why must I go about mourning? (Psalm 42:9) Dear believer, can you answer the above question? Can you find any… — L.B.E. Cowman Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“When I see those sad, abused and neglected animals on those commercials I feel despair for the human race. Too many people… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read,… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“This was how the world persisted. The heaviness of despair - how could it exist in the midst of mascara, zippers, brunches… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“He was exasperated because he didn’t know what that look meant. He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He didn’t know… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“For years, maybe most of my life, I had languished in that typical young intellectual's delusion that gloom and despair are the… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
“You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
