“I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun… — J.R.R.Tolkin Copy Share Image
“We recognized who we were at a glace--all irregulars from the drifting nation of dreamy youth. We're ghosts of those times now,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally… — A.M. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run —… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
“Just as the bird leaves no trace, no record of its flight upon the void, so human desire can gain nothing out… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet at least he had believed in the cars, maybe to excess: how could he not, seeing people poorer than him come… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
“The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending.… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“It's a balancing act, keeping hope but not letting it drive you to distraction. Because the flip side of hope, the dark… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
No matter what our troubles, I still love you, As though a part of me were also you. Life isn't easy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ever been depressed?” I ask them. “Really depressed? Like nothing means anything? Like there’s no point to anything?” I can see from… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
