#despair

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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.


John F. Kennedy


#careful #despair #facts #faithful #frankly

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.


Soren Kierkegaard


#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.


Elena Ferrante


#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.


Martin Sheen


#bush #despair #even #george #george bush

Despair has its own calms.


Bram Stoker


#despair #own

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#despair #discouragement #ingratitude #misery #rain

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.


Ezra Pound


#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screams of pain. These were screams of years of sorrow and despair. These were screams that made your skin crawl. These were the worst screams I have ever heard. I cannot get them out of my head. Perhaps, they will be with me forever. I shouldn't be so lucky.


Jamie Schoffman


#jamie-schoffman #not-all-out-of-love #scream #sorrow #love

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.


Jose Bergamin


#born #despair #disillusionment #novel #poem

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


Sonya Hartnett


#briny-water #channel #despair #exception #flooded