Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK And not to worry 'cause worry… — Jewel Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Just as the bird leaves no trace, no record of its flight upon the void, so human desire can gain nothing out… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“Yet at least he had believed in the cars, maybe to excess: how could he not, seeing people poorer than him come… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over.… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“What drew him towards the outside was not the student, not the goat, not even the man in the down-at-heel shoes who… — Albert Cossery Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
“Lately I’ve had to redefine the word “knowledge” to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I’m dealing not in careless absurdities here… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No,… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the workings of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We burst with dreams, ideals and good intentions but we’re also prone to despair and paralysis; we want to move forward but… — Hetty Einzig Copy Share Image
“Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
