“It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and… — William James Copy Share Image
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“...there was one thing she would think about when she was high, one thing she would feel: that she was transparent, not… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Despair demands less of us, it’s more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone,… — Jon Blais Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
