I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand,… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them… — Evadne Price Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how different I am The outside of me is not afraid Not full of pain, or even ashamed I smile… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong 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
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