Quotes of: Despair Keyword

Make LOVE...Not WAR! Give Our World Peace And Not Despair

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

The Book Thief

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

The Isle of Blood

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

Ironside

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

Repossessed

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Modern Happiness

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Man's Search for Meaning

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

The Naming

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Surrender

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

The Solace of Open Spaces

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero. Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

The Power and the Glory

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

Xazaqazax

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her.

Chasing Butterflies

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. -

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath