The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.

I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land....

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it...

Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one’s personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

You say she’s mine…but honestly, I don’t think she was ever mine to begin with.

It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get...

He told police he had an argument with his girlfriend, he was in despair, … This defendant was trying to end his own life.

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are,...

And I am weary of the anguishIncreasing winters bear;Weary to watch the spirit languishThrough years of dead despair.So, if a tear, when thou art dying,Should haply fall from me,It is but that my soul is...

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the...

The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.

Do not give up. Be strong!

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable.

‘Maybe you out to go back there.’ ‘Can’t. Gotta stay where… where I know what’s what.’ Where I don’t forget what I am, and that I don’t deserve anything better. Would wreck anything better. ‘I...

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can’t return from it.

Sometimes…you can cry until there’s nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And,...

He looks forlornly ahead of him, gazing at the road but looking at nothing in particular. The whole world is one big giant ball of light to him, and he feels like a bug inside...

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being...

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence...

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring...

..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

There are four things that make a man fight as you just did,” the duke explained to Rumbold. “Love, despair, anger, or insanity.”Erik counted them off on his fingers. “Everything to lose, nothing to lose,...

Is there any good news?’ Tesla said.Who ever promised that? Who ever said there’d be good news?

I’m afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I’ve said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don’t know how to be this kind of villain.

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won’t collapse.

As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to...

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we...

Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

No matter how often you miss the target, keep firing the shots. Your victory is certain!

Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.

Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/policeofficers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?Why do cops kill?Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone runningor reaching for a weapon?If not, why...

You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has...

Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair

Sorrow on another’s face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy,...

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the...

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

bizim” yeni yaşamımız mümkün olamazdı.

She knew for a fact that she wasn’t going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn’t going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had...

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...