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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go

The air in my home is heavy with my mom’s unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she’s in...

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying...

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again,...