To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word..

There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a….

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart..

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair..

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking..

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things..

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extingu….

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful auth….

Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you..

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter comin….

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more ….

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, an….

Despair is part of love..

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere..

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window,….

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair..

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for lo….

A comprehended God is no God at all!.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force..

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and ….