“If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and… — Ron Pope Copy Share Image
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“It is a season of hopelessness, of being lost, of wishing I could turn to dust and melt with the rain. Dreams… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?” — T.F. Hodge 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
“Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is… — Swindoll Charles R Copy Share Image
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went… — Michael Franti 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 just think it would be a good thing to have a voice in the mix of all the hopelessness that actually… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
“Muck: A state of being that disempowered and fills us with self-doubt, self-hate, worry, fear, mediocrity, and an overall feeling of hopelessness… — Teri Karjala Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's a balancing act, keeping hope but not letting it drive you to distraction. Because the flip side of hope, the dark… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer.… — David S. Baxter 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
“Almost every day I feel momentary flashes of hopelessness and wonder every time whether I am slipping. For a petrifying instant here… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“But there is one thing I do know, tucked away inside myself: hope unstitches you. Hope leaves you open and wounded. Without… — Patti Russon Copy Share Image
“She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your very existence seems nothing, sometimes its your shadow I yearn for or a glimpse of it.” — ehddah Copy Share Image
“So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
“there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet.” — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
“something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow.” — Dr Paul Gitwaza Copy Share Image