Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a… — Alina Bronsky 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
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Faking a smile can only hurt yourself, with so much problem to fear and so much pain to bear. At the end,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“We all get in a funk sometimes. It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you. — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the… — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress. — Martin Luther King III 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
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
