Danger Quote by Toni Morrison

“We search for something we cannot grab hold of, something that will satisfy our deep longing. But since we usually look in the wrong…

— Meg Meeker

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

— Andrew Comiskey

“WHEN any extraordinary events, unexpected anxieties or catastrophes, intrude themselves suddenly into a life up to that period peaceful and happy, these unexpected emotions…

— Victor Hugo

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope;…

— Vaclav Havel

“There’s a moment in everybody’s life when you’re hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand,…

— Will Donner

“He looks forlornly ahead of him, gazing at the road but looking at nothing in particular. The whole world is one big giant ball…

— Sam Hunter

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in…

— Thomas Merton

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

“... You will lose all hope. And that foul, rotting hopelessness, that abject feeling of pointlessness and futility, is the most defeating of all…

— James Patterson

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier