Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life." In 2010, I was… — Julie-Anne 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
“Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to… — Erica Lindquist Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
“I can't go to America. I don't want to go to any foreign land where I don't speak the language or know… — Kien Nguyen 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
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness… — William F. Lynch Copy Share Image
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
“...there was no longer any reason why I should fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my bowl of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“This is the vicious cycle. When we feel pain from our physical debility, that pain amplifies our sense of hopelessness; the less… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs,… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
“Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's… — Rick Yancy Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkest abyss of despair, when it feels as though hope has perished, remember this—the pages of life are never… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
