“Troubles don't tarry. They will come, but they won't spend the night.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find -… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
“The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask… — Heinrich Heine 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
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Part of the overall despair of this Luxury Cruise is that no matter what I do I cannot escape my own essential… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone. By the blue waters and rustling palms of his own mind he was… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Her despairing mind searches for the thorns on her floral print dress.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
