At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith.… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause… — Ched Myers Copy Share Image
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope.… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
