I think he’s really throwing down the gauntlet. It’s a very bold move, … comes from despair and lack of hope.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the...

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one’s own hands, nor one’s step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

You can actually create the life you want. It all depends on how daring you desire it.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer...

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that...

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

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!

Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it...

And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first...

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. “I’ve only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing.I’m utterly lost. And you are needed here.” Zsadist tried to reach out, but...

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Si, mi cielo…

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

You are capable of great deeds.

The pages aren’t numbered, so I don’t know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it’s in sequence but these days I’m not really looking for continuity.All I’m after is something that makes...

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of ‘Failure of Will.’ Depression is not a choice.

We drove down Corydon avenue towards my mother’s apartment. How are you doing, she asked me? Fine, fine, I said. I wanted to tell her that I felt I was dying from rage and that...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to...

I dread the loss of her I’ve never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman...

And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won’t; and she would like to stop feeling this despair and so she thinks that she...

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

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

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Christ! What are patterns for?

I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in...

She became the bad company that she kept.

There’s no hope for someone who doesn’t even know what hope is

I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I...

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen...

My only hope lies in my despair.

Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every step of the journey.

Without hope we fail to exist.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.

Uncle said, “If love would save him, wouldn’t no harm come to him.

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.