“If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as… — ehddah Copy Share Image
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life." In 2010, I was… — Julie-Anne Copy Share Image
“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The secret is just to not give up hope. It’s very hard not to, because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I… — Vanessa Moore Copy Share Image
“It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“People often say “Just look for the silver lining.” But what do you say to the person surrounded by fog? They don’t… — Sadie Turner Copy Share Image
“Spoilers follow I started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no… — Megan Crewe Copy Share Image
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I cant say that I know just what you're dealing with But it's so plain that it shows just what your feelings… — Kj-52 Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to… — Erica Lindquist Copy Share Image
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkest abyss of despair, when it feels as though hope has perished, remember this—the pages of life are never… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs,… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
“Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's… — Rick Yancy Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far… — Gargi Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles. One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and… — Gemma B. Benton Copy Share Image
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
