“Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkest abyss of despair, when it feels as though hope has perished, remember this—the pages of life are never… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute,… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“To her despair was added a philosophical dejection, the feeling of every thinker who, venturing an inquisitive finger beneath the velvet of… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
I have known love. I have had it, held it tight, and lost it. A broken heart cannot be mended, for when… — Alaxandra Kertesz Copy Share Image
“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost,… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
