I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“It's a balancing act, keeping hope but not letting it drive you to distraction. Because the flip side of hope, the dark… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending.… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“DISTRACTED with care For Phillis the fair, Since nothing could move her, Poor Damon, her lover, Resolves in despair No longer to… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind… — Ken Grimwood 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
“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I had seen that errible look on a man's face before, on the faces of those being dragged to the gallows. Some… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith.… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift… — Ryukishi07 Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
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