Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again,...

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense...

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it...

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

I alternate between hope and despair,

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

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

Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn’t, love doesn’t, hope doesn’t, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea...

I’ve always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people’s eyes. I’ve always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in...

I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled...

Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

You will conquer every mountain.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?

…How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair…

…it occurred to me that maybe Samson’s hair wasn’t the source of his strength; maybe it was the symbol of his strength. And maybe when Delilah cut off his hair, he didn’t lose his power...

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair – we rise and we shine, ’cause it’s like that’!

Merry’s mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William’s lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and...

Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.

When you get to know me, I don’t despair – I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

He gasped in despair while he wrote to her knowing everything is going to end.He: Why did you ruin my image in front of your mother and family though I wasn’t the bad guy?She replied...

By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost,and that persuasion made...

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a...

Cereal face,” and I took it while eating Cocoa Puffs.

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun.

You can be happy in any situation. You must nurture a healthy thought.

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can’t breathe then, like...

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of...

A Wish on the Sun””I see the world beyond a tiny window that allows a glimpse of Heaven into my life. Those who dwell in that enviable light cannot hear me through the glass that...

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Life … is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

No day is too bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.

I don’t think I’ve ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that’s being talked about here, I don’t know if there will...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to...