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
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
“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 no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Times moves differently down here in the dark. With no sunlight or shadows. No weather at all. There's no future, no right… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image