If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the… — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Copy Share Image
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I DRAW A HOT SORROW BATH IN MY DESPAIR ROOM WITH A MISERY CANDLE BURNING I WASH MY HAIR WITH REGRET SHAMPOO… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come… — Jamie Schoffman Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image