“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind” — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen 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
I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we… — Chris Bradford Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement,… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The question why, at least in my life, often leads to despair. Why did this happen to me? Why didn't someone who… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image