May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical...

Long have I dwelt forgotten hereIn pining woe and dull despair;This place of solitude and gloomMust be my dungeon and my tomb.

A simple ‘Hi’ from your crush might trigger your feelings again,but you must shove them up your ass,because you simply don’t have the permission to love.

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness....

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

Good. Drink your tea,” he ordered. “It will make you feel better.”Nothing will make me feel better, she thought, but she drank it down. It was hot and sweet. Mr. Humphreys must have put his entire month’s sugar ration into it.She drained the cup, feeling ashamed of herself. She wasn’t the only one who’d had...

And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to show your belief in democracy, you also have to do so when you are in the minority, convinced both intellectually and, not least, in your innermost self, that the majority, in the name...

At night I no longer dreamed, nor did I let my imagination work during the day. The once vibrant escapes of watching myself fly through the clouds in bright blue costumes, were now a thing of the past. When I fell asleep, my soul became consumed in a black void. I no longer awoke in...

Aquela putain, Emma Bovary, tem a vida eterna e eu morro como um cão.

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It’s not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything...

Never allow forgiveness to rule your heart. Let go of your hurts. Embrace healing.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

As long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of...

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate. Even though God has allowed you to be there right now, he never intended for you to live there. Our God is bigger then whatever problem you are facing. The only way to...

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

Despair, night in the grieving senses.

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so ‘in-between’ things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it’s evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you.

Every great warrior must learn to endure and overcome the adversities of life.

It had been so long since she had felt anything.

You can find hope in despair. Dwell on positive thoughts.

… I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…who put darkness for light and light for darkness…who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.” Issiah 5:20,21

I walked back to the window to look down at the people who shared this city with me. The people who made every day a series of mediocrities.The unreformed murderers masquerading as businessmen in borrowed suits and debt-laden cars. The voluptuous bimbos floating around in an inexplicable mix of vacuity and despair. The crumbling face...

Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?

The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He...

And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the...

I’m pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn’t help but feel spiritual in her presence.

Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or...

Fame you’ll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don’t because sometimes they won’t..

Every time we made love, one of us cried. Mostly it was me, out of joy, but occasionally it was her, out of despair.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for...

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.