May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

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

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the...

What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by the light of his own Christian viewpoint; he also finds friendship...

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

At the top of the page I wrote my full name […] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: “I wish I could love someone...

Investigating Koreiko’s case might take a long time,” said Ostap. “God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it’s other people one can’t satisfy. One thinks one’s way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are...

All great men remain undeterred during dark times.

That day wasn’t the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings – back then I thought it an act of empowerment....

And it didn’t matter. It wouldn’t make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at...

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The...

I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay,and He has set my feet upon...

This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and...

the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren. I...

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a...

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will...

Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out–anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

Despair is something horribly simple.

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

… A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always “frontal” lobotomy;but was there any other kind?Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set...

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and...

Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart.

I shall not be afraid of a calamity. God is my defender.

And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of the crown or in humble obscurity only the toil and heat...

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason...

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered...

There is darkness inside us all. It is true. Inside every human being there is a tremendous and powerful capacity to commit deeds of evil. A force with the power to hurt others, to further...

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of manIn me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not...

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

My dreams and ambitions kept me company on the way there, and despair and regret were passengers on my return trip. I should have ridden a horse and not bothered with all that.

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.