May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a...

Cereal face,” and I took it while eating Cocoa Puffs.

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun.

You can be happy in any situation. You must nurture a healthy thought.

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can’t breathe then, like...

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of...

A Wish on the Sun””I see the world beyond a tiny window that allows a glimpse of Heaven into my life. Those who dwell in that enviable light cannot hear me through the glass that...

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Life … is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

When you get to know me, I don’t despair – I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

He gasped in despair while he wrote to her knowing everything is going to end.He: Why did you ruin my image in front of your mother and family though I wasn’t the bad guy?She replied...

By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost,and that persuasion made...

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the...

Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All the while, Signý, caged in his dungeons, hearing all the painful details of...

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its...

Trust in the Lord brings much hope, joy and peace.

Don’t waste your energy on negative thoughts.

Hold on to hope and positive thoughts; strength for thy soul.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Don’t degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I’m no one.

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence...

Satan’s despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

I am so well acquainted with despair,I know not how to hope…

Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of the disease turning Perry’s body inside out. Fucking normal people.

No day is too bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.

I don’t think I’ve ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that’s being talked about here, I don’t know if there will...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to...

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

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 the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly...

The IdealThis is where I came from.I passed this way.This should not be shameful Or hard to say.A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respectWhat he has been. This...

It’s funny how despair can soon become an old companion

The Saviour is a life-giving light.

Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar’s flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote to him. Uncle Saleh was across the world. A few years back, getting...

You shall overcome every limitation and soar high on Eagle’s wing.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is “not lost in loss itself.

The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.

I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.