Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.” — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled,… — Josephus Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi Copy Share Image
The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines. — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
When we think of nothing our mind and heart are relaxed. But when we get hooked into a world of despair we're… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria’s prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“But every night I end up fighting my despair the second I lay my head on my pillow. It is then I… — Elizabeth Finn Copy Share Image
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A lesson without Pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But once you have overcome… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
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