| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c13d7db | Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. | grief-and-loss hope-and-despair | David Mitchell | |
| eb14ac5 | Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. | humanity hope hope-and-despair | Henryk Sienkiewicz |