It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for… — William Hague Copy Share Image
As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a… — T. H. Watkins Copy Share Image
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of… — Vaughn J Featherstone Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with… — Chloe Hooper Copy Share Image
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
