“If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things… — James Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Our neocortex has made us meaning-seeking creatures, acutely aware of the perplexity and tragedy of our predicament, and if we do not… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He was almost there, ready to hang up his wings, to leave behind everyone who mattered to him. To descend into a… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed...I have chosen… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“and you would know by now that silence is not distance — it is despair and distress and failure and weakness and… — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting… — Kevin Heath Copy Share Image
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to… — Greg Evans Copy Share Image
The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights.… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
![“If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in [her] chest. She'd been feeling this, this black rip, this loud tear, within her.” quote by Dave Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/511/dave-eggers-638_despair_if-one-could-eliminate-this-kind-of-unce_2021379.jpg)
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