“I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. But upon my word I sometimes have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan 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
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red,… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan 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
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
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
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost,… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute,… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I have known love. I have had it, held it tight, and lost it. A broken heart cannot be mended, for when… — Alaxandra Kertesz Copy Share Image
