Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and… — Daniel Hays Copy Share Image
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the despair that's welling up in me is transforming into white-hot rage. I feel it working its way up… — Michelle Figley Copy Share Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“The soul is a divider of hearts, a subtle harp its love forsakes the drunkards and debauchees love forgets nothing, but nothing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“There was an ache in his heart like the farewell to a dear woman; there was a vague sorrow in him like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When hope crashes, almost immediately, a future smashes into smithereens- into a thousand broken mirror pieces, while you're left with your pallid,… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith;… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think Trump is so dangerous because the people that he appeals to the most have this sense of despair and oppression… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image