I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about… — Olof Arnalds Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The… — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image