#despair

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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.


Robin Gibb


#closer #despair #dying #feeling #felt

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.


Robert Graves


#despair #exceeds #far #girl #good

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.


Max Jacob


#despair #expression #found #having #his

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


Nikki Rosen


#despair #faith #god #hope #hopeless

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.


Mario Vargas Llosa


#ephemeral #how #matter #nothing #novel

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.


Magnus Magnusson


#despairing #find #i #i am #mortal

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.


Morris West


#despair #fact #had #impossible #know

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief- woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing — Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling- ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'. O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.


Gerard Manley Hopkins


#depression #despair #grief #suffering #age

Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening clouds. This fate has ever been so for those who proclaim their “Pride.” They have nothing to expect in the future but their fall. As for the Christian, he has nothing to fear but his falling into the pride of despair. If he avoids becoming despondent and retains his humility, he will receive the gift of hope which is its fruit. Where there is hope there is the Way, the Truth and the Life.


Joseph Pearce


#hope #humility #age

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer.


Vladimir Nabokov


#innocence #insanity #beauty