“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Repentance is like a cloudburst that cleans the penitent soul of sin and washes away hopelessness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our… — Dwan J. Young Copy Share Image
“If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
