Despair Quotes - Page 24

• I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Space, People

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• But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  New York, Years, Movement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

  Tariq Ali

  Weakness, Terrorism, Emanate

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

  Lori Lansens

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mysterious, Stills

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Despair is part of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

  Amanda Palmer

  Math, Simple, Fundamentals

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Memories, Sadness, Intelligent

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• I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Trying, World

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

  John Lewis

  Sea, Progress, Pushing

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

  Tim Kaine

  Daughter, Brother, Grief

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• Despair is a natural emotion.

  Tim Kaine

  Emotion, Natural

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Compromise, Easy, Betray

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• I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.

  David Starkey

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Loss, Son

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Del. Prin, Chapter XVII, 1922.

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
  [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

  Tacitus

  Bravery, Fortune, Forte

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• It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Grief, Ambition

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• Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Criminals, Keyholes

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• Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Generous Spirit, Cows, Poverty

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• Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Mind, May, Sometimes

  TAYLOR CALDWELL “THE SIDE OF INNOCENCE”

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• God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Laughter, Sorrow, Tears

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, No Fear, Affection

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• Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

  Adrienne Rich

  Self, Numbness, Encounters

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Passion, Men

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