Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
“Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?” — Clive Barker 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
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or… — Phil Vischer 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
I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. — Kiersten White 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
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of… — Lorrie Moore 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
If you look at a lot of kids from the inner city, there's this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair, and I… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals,… — Thomas Merton 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
