Bird Quote by Michel de Montaigne

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

— Nhat Hanh

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken…

— Jean Paul

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

— Elie Wiesel

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to…

— Antonin Artaud

“Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return…

— T.S. Eliot

“Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale”

— Miguel Syjuco

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

— Albert Einstein

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

— Hadewijch

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform…

— Mikhail Bakunin

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were…

— Henry David Thoreau