Hope Quote by William Maxwell Download Open image “His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.” — William Maxwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hope Kind Patience Patient Sadness Without hope
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.” — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image
“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.” — L.M. Bryski Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is perhaps no mystery at all. But the history of one's parents has to be pieced together from fragments, their motives and characters guessed at, and the truth about them remains deeply buried, like a boulder that… — William Maxwell Copy Share
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Whether they are part of a home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having taken away the dog, take away the kitchen–the smell of something good in the oven for dinner. Also the smell of washing day, of wool drying in the wooden rack. Of ashes. Of soup simmering on… — William Maxwell Copy Share
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice, — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception. — William Maxwell Copy Share
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I am at a point in my life where everything I have worked for starts to look like a burden, a weight on my shoulders!I feel I am at a cross roads: either I continue fighting for what I believed in in hope that someday it will regain my interest or I drop everything right now and start from scratch... — Simone Abou Samra Copy Share
