“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life. — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image