#despair

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I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.


Greg Kinnear


#concerted effort #despair #does #done #effort

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

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.


William Shakespeare


#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.


John Strachan


#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.


Studs Terkel


#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.


King Hussein


#cannot #come #despair #firm #future

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.


Blaise Pascal


#jesus-christ #knowing #balance

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.


Groucho Marx


#groucho #laughter #marx #letters

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.


Ashly Lorenzana


#emotions #poetry #poetry-quotes #scars #secrets