May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon....

Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather...

There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at...

Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That’s how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can’t say, “I am sad,” or “I am happy”. They understood what we English have long...

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks flecked with the afternoon sunshine through the boughs: I was in the midst...

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no...

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

Keep your hope in the Lord.

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief. There...

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

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

I’ll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.

It’s lies. It’s all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that’s all. People see what they think is there.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

Her şeyin geçip gittiğine, yaşadıklarımızın geçmişte kaldığına kim inandırabilir bizi?

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience...

You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go.

The road of doubt leads to the dead-end of despair. Time to change directions!” HS/el

I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screams...

This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole...

Your prayers will certainly be answered. Everyone who asks receives.

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Hold fast to your faith.Keep your hope in the Lord.Embrace the love of God.

Music lifted our spirit.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.

…stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the...

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

You’d be surprised, Theo.” she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, “what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You’re the one who has to...

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as...

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, – still...

Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my...

Hang on! God will strength in any act of your pursuit.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn’t a guest, you didn’t play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.