Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world,… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
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“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red,… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. But upon my word I sometimes have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“He was almost there, ready to hang up his wings, to leave behind everyone who mattered to him. To descend into a… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Her skin is cold, and clammy; her eyes are the color of sky, on the grey, wet days that leach the world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
![“[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/anonymous-1_abyss_buddhism-and-christianity-are-in-one-sen_2272362.jpg)
