“Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
“Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Walls Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about. And now I sit here… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
“Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair.… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“To other cities, other machines, other forests of buildings of concrete where other men and women missed the stars at night and… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to sink, in order to understand what it means to rise. You must fall apart, to understand what it… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“This was like that, only without the flash or the headache. I felt the world shift around me. Javier hadn't been looking… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Alice cold make no sense of the despair into which she had fallen. She had always held that happiness should be defined… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Helen slowly became aware of an unnerving red light. She lifted her head and looked around. The glow bounced off the cold… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Within days, perhaps hours, the discarded remnants of this last job would have been bleached of any trace of their origins, each… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Dreamy tosspots, they stand all afternoon in a 2nd Avenue bar looking at the sun-patterns under the L or their own faces… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image