The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a… — Junior Isaac Copy Share Image
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on occasion I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and… — Ron Pope Copy Share Image
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life,… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee,… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Merciful Heavens! But what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
“If he had uttered the word “come” she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres;… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do , the where-are-you-from , the what-neighborhood , the what-college , the despair of… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image