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In times of despair, hope becomes the anchor for the righteous, as we entered this world bare, and we shall exit it in the same manner. The culmination of all things surpasses its inception. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
The sorrow of Good Friday's sacrifice to the joy of Easter's dawn of victory is a timeless testament to life's journey from despair to hope, from darkness to light, from trial to triumph. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 3 months ago
If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by Normando 4 months ago
no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we’re all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn’t far off, just a few years. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 10 months ago
Losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair. – Mesut Hancer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was awful. As soon as I heard the news, I rushed there. And with my own bare hands, with my own means, with great effort I tried to pull out my daughter. However, unfortunately, I couldn’t save my daughter, losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair. – Mesut Hancer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When these shootings happen, there’s so much despair, there’s so much tragedy and fear that can ripple across communities. – Kelsey Gastineau	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mountains fall and seas divide and impossible things may seem but where there’s despair there is and faith and where there’s sadness the consolation is near. Every breath is a chance to reborn, but to be reborn you have to die before dying. – Alexis karpouzos	added by alexiskarpouzos_1 1 year ago
Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going. – Sonia Sotomayor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Forty-seven years ago, I was in a desperate situation, in despair, and uh, probably not long to live, and I just had to realize there was something really wrong with me. But I didn’t realize it was a kind of condition – a mental, physical, emotional condition called alcoholism or addiction. – Anthony Hopkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Over the last five or six years, we've heard a lot more about diseases of despair -- things like substance use, alcoholism and suicide -- and a lot of those things are connected, it helps to point out how vulnerable certain communities can be to a lot of other conditions. – Native American	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe a man's character is defined through his hard work. and right now I'm in despair. – Sultan Mahmood Goya	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Lives will be lost, just from the death in and around pregnancy, but also those deaths of despair when you get another generation of people into poverty. – Goler Blount	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I know that for many women right now, there is a sentiment of despair, but again, we have to band together and not wallow. We have to do the work. This moment requires unity – really listening to people, understanding the Constitution was written at a time when women were second-class citizens. We’re not. Certain things need to change. – Meghan Markle	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Injustice and corruption, poverty and pollution, disease and despair. They aren't contained by any borders, if we learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, from these last few years of sickness and sorrow, it's how one deadly virus can move through the world. How hunger and violence are woven together. How a war in Europe can ripple through stock markets and supermarkets. And here, how the loss of trees in your Amazon can take a piece of the future from all of us. – Jill Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
We, the Russian people, are against the war Putin has unleashed. We don’t support this war, it is being waged not on our behalf, i know that right now many of you feel desperation, helplessness, shame over Vladimir Putin’s attack on the friendly nation of Ukraine. But I urge you not to despair. – Marina Litvinovich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
bonds are formed, death with the dead, those with no hope, the despair written in their eyes selling bit & pieces of shit called food for an extra sheet to put over their shivering bodies – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
I think it's really important that we come with a message of hope. At the same time that you're coming with physical aid, that's critical because when in dark times, the lack of hope leads people to despair and to give up. – Eric Mock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As a father, I was particularly struck by what happened this weekend with two small children being shot, i don’t know how anyone in this community could hear about or read about or in some cases personally experience the kind of horrific violence we’ve seen this weekend and feel anything other than utter despair and a profound sense of sadness. – Ted Wheeler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's sad seeing despair and the lack of resources any normal kid should have. – Jeffrey Norman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Tonight, the Democratic Party, their close allies in the mob in the media are in an utter state of chaos, poll numbers imploding. [President] Biden struggling in every single way. Many are in a state of despair. Some are predictably smearing their political opponents as racist. Others in Congress are throwing in the towel, retiring en masse. They want out completely. At least one media outlet is calling for the National Guard to round up unvaccinated Americans who dare to leave their homes. – Jon Hatami	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

In times of despair, hope becomes the anchor for the righteous, as we entered this world bare, and we shall exit it in the same manner. The culmination of all things surpasses its inception.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

The sorrow of Good Friday's sacrifice to the joy of Easter's dawn of victory is a timeless testament to life's journey from despair to hope, from darkness to light, from trial to triumph.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
4 months ago

no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we’re all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn’t far off, just a few years.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

Losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair.

– Mesut Hancer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was awful. As soon as I heard the news, I rushed there. And with my own bare hands, with my own means, with great effort I tried to pull out my daughter. However, unfortunately, I couldn’t save my daughter, losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair.

– Mesut Hancer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When these shootings happen, there’s so much despair, there’s so much tragedy and fear that can ripple across communities.

– Kelsey Gastineau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mountains fall and seas divide and impossible things may seem but where there’s despair there is and faith and where there’s sadness the consolation is near. Every breath is a chance to reborn, but to be reborn you have to die before dying.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by alexiskarpouzos_1
1 year ago

Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Forty-seven years ago, I was in a desperate situation, in despair, and uh, probably not long to live, and I just had to realize there was something really wrong with me. But I didn’t realize it was a kind of condition – a mental, physical, emotional condition called alcoholism or addiction.

– Anthony Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the last five or six years, we've heard a lot more about diseases of despair -- things like substance use, alcoholism and suicide -- and a lot of those things are connected, it helps to point out how vulnerable certain communities can be to a lot of other conditions.

– Native American

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe a man's character is defined through his hard work. and right now I'm in despair.

– Sultan Mahmood Goya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lives will be lost, just from the death in and around pregnancy, but also those deaths of despair when you get another generation of people into poverty.

– Goler Blount

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know that for many women right now, there is a sentiment of despair, but again, we have to band together and not wallow. We have to do the work. This moment requires unity – really listening to people, understanding the Constitution was written at a time when women were second-class citizens. We’re not. Certain things need to change.

– Meghan Markle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Injustice and corruption, poverty and pollution, disease and despair. They aren't contained by any borders, if we learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, from these last few years of sickness and sorrow, it's how one deadly virus can move through the world. How hunger and violence are woven together. How a war in Europe can ripple through stock markets and supermarkets. And here, how the loss of trees in your Amazon can take a piece of the future from all of us.

– Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

We, the Russian people, are against the war Putin has unleashed. We don’t support this war, it is being waged not on our behalf, i know that right now many of you feel desperation, helplessness, shame over Vladimir Putin’s attack on the friendly nation of Ukraine. But I urge you not to despair.

– Marina Litvinovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

bonds are formed, death with the dead, those with no hope, the despair written in their eyes selling bit & pieces of shit called food for an extra sheet to put over their shivering bodies

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

I think it's really important that we come with a message of hope. At the same time that you're coming with physical aid, that's critical because when in dark times, the lack of hope leads people to despair and to give up.

– Eric Mock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a father, I was particularly struck by what happened this weekend with two small children being shot, i don’t know how anyone in this community could hear about or read about or in some cases personally experience the kind of horrific violence we’ve seen this weekend and feel anything other than utter despair and a profound sense of sadness.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's sad seeing despair and the lack of resources any normal kid should have.

– Jeffrey Norman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Tonight, the Democratic Party, their close allies in the mob in the media are in an utter state of chaos, poll numbers imploding. [President] Biden struggling in every single way. Many are in a state of despair. Some are predictably smearing their political opponents as racist. Others in Congress are throwing in the towel, retiring en masse. They want out completely. At least one media outlet is calling for the National Guard to round up unvaccinated Americans who dare to leave their homes.

– Jon Hatami

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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