We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking]… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue 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
