“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In times of deep despair we dethrone Him through our doubt and find Him a failure through our fears. We cling to… — Cherie Hill Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time?” I sighed. “Yes.” Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“Something of the same strain and anguish seems to have entered the soul of ivilised man. He knows there is something better… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair.… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Walls Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about. And now I sit here… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“To other cities, other machines, other forests of buildings of concrete where other men and women missed the stars at night and… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives that we stumble and fall. We disappoint and we fail. Most of the time we find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Yet as bad as she felt, it was nothing compared to the stark despair she saw in Rafferty’s eyes. It was so… — Caroline Cross Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image