Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

P. J. O'Rourke

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Avi Arad

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

Mary Oliver

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Terence McKenna

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Lewis Thomas

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Gail Godwin

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Richard K. Morgan

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Willie Nelson

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!

Henry Rollins

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Nick McDonell

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Marvin Hamlisch

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Mary Pope Osborne

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.