“Jonathan’s arm jerked to the side in clumsy reaction, tipping over the bottle of ink that sat on the desk beside his… — Sondra Allan Carr Copy Share Image
“From early childhood he had experienced the wish to die, to commit suicide, as they say, but never was totally concentrated. He… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help.… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches. Necklace, drunken… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“I cannot really play. Either at piano or at life; never, never have I been able to. I have always been too… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“If only I could cry. I am beyond that. The light, the light, lending itself to empty downtown Saturday, but still the… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er… — Charles Robert Maturin 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
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence,… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon 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
“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab… — Janet Frame 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
“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Under ground, under ground! Down in the safe soft womb of earth, where there is no getting of jobs or losing of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“I had felt my life to be of a dull dead-level mediocrity, with the sense of real and vital things going on… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“The boats bumped against the side of the ship, the sailors and passengers shouted lustily, and somewhere a child, as if crushed… — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
No matter what our troubles, I still love you, As though a part of me were also you. Life isn't easy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Ever been depressed?” I ask them. “Really depressed? Like nothing means anything? Like there’s no point to anything?” I can see from… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
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