The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
“Life's big questions are big in the sense that they are momentuous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“Helen dared to look up without being invited to do so. “I cannot thank you enough for your kindness, Lady Consort.” “Kindness… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology. — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“But if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life;… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
