“At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image