Quotes of: Despair Keyword

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Mary Harris Jones

Solomon Northup: I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!

12 Years a Slave

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

Alan Beattie

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Alfred de Musset

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost, she was just there across the river, waiting for him to find her. Nick ...

Everwild

Seeking more information, I walked through the market listening to the gossip and discovered that our new general, the man sent to quell the unrest in the east, was the second son of a provincial tax collector whose only claims to recognition were th...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

The Coming Storm

There is beauty that soothes like the warm kiss of the spring sun upon the cheek, and then there is beauty that terrifies, like the cry of Ozymandias, inviting despair.

The Curse of the Wendigo

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

The End

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

The Fall of Atlantis

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

A Familiar Rain

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

On the Heights of Despair

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth.

Hope and Despair

A quick way to overcome your despair...is to go out and help someone else overcome theirs!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!❤

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Sadly despair is usually the #1 teacher of spirituality~uniting us together in our darkness...leading us to light!✌ @800273TALK

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration