“We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness… — David Richo Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world,… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting… — Jason Gedrick Copy Share Image
“But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there.… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends… I wish… — Frances Goodrich Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Merry’s mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as… — Susan Catalano Copy Share Image
“For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hope, belief, and despair are not simply moods. They change our physical performance. They alter how quickly we react, how hard we… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
“Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You want to know what the saddest part is Tess?” I said, sounding choked up. “What’s that Josh?” I felt my heart… — Angela Richardson Copy Share Image
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
![“[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a9b/anonymous-1_abyss_buddhism-and-christianity-are-in-one-sen_2272362.jpg)
