Joy Quote by Ruskin Bond

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders.”

— George Gissing

“who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To have despair is human...for we all have problems that at times burden us. To rise above your trials and tribulations, sadness, suffering and…

— Timothy Pina

“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle…

— David O. McKay

“Despair may torment your soul but peace can rise through the storms of life to help heal you. Never forget to maintain hope in…

— Timothy Pina

“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means of nature.”

— Zinzi Clemmons