If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help.… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches. Necklace, drunken… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“Jonathan’s arm jerked to the side in clumsy reaction, tipping over the bottle of ink that sat on the desk beside his… — Sondra Allan Carr Copy Share Image
“From early childhood he had experienced the wish to die, to commit suicide, as they say, but never was totally concentrated. He… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Butterfly There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The important thing is to not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past, and recognize that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell 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
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence,… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number… — Douglas MacArthur 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
“If only I could cry. I am beyond that. The light, the light, lending itself to empty downtown Saturday, but still the… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how different I am The outside of me is not afraid Not full of pain, or even ashamed I smile… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
