Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end-… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
If crying can manipulate pain away and wash away things to make yourself feel better..Well I guess it doesn't work that way.I… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home. Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness,… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
There's a feeling of despair for some, but that's not what we wanted. Because the whole movie is without dialogue, it's more… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
You're faking, you're mistaken If you think that you could climb out of this hole — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
