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Despair Quotes

And I said to myself: That’s true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field Picture Quote #1

Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives Picture Quote #1

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world Picture Quote #1

The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies Picture Quote #1

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you Picture Quote #1

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective Picture Quote #1

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Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them... go around them... take evasive action Picture Quote #1

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination Picture Quote #1

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together Picture Quote #1

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge Picture Quote #1

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn’t exist. For some people it’s better than where they are. For many it’s a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don’t have a choice. No and that’s awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it Picture Quote #1

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days Picture Quote #1

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We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better Picture Quote #1

He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy Picture Quote #1

I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it Picture Quote #1

It didn’t take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn’t take your parents getting shot... or cosmic rays or a power ring... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair Picture Quote #1

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I’ve been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone Picture Quote #1

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world’s end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this Picture Quote #1

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You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough Picture Quote #1

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world Picture Quote #1

I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times Picture Quote #1

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her Picture Quote #1

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair Picture Quote #1

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it Picture Quote #1

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We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair Picture Quote #1

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair Picture Quote #1

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on Picture Quote #1

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy Picture Quote #1

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps Picture Quote #1

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace Picture Quote #1

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And I said to myself: That’s true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field (Despair Quotes) Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives (Despair Quotes) Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world (Despair Quotes) The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies (Despair Quotes) Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you (Despair Quotes) You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective (Despair Quotes) Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them... go around them... take evasive action (Despair Quotes) The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination (Despair Quotes) The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together (Despair Quotes) After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge (Despair Quotes) Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn’t exist. For some people it’s better than where they are. For many it’s a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don’t have a choice. No and that’s awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it (Despair Quotes) So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days (Despair Quotes) We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better (Despair Quotes) He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy (Despair Quotes) I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it (Despair Quotes) It didn’t take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn’t take your parents getting shot... or cosmic rays or a power ring... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair (Despair Quotes) I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I’ve been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone (Despair Quotes) Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world’s end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this (Despair Quotes) You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough (Despair Quotes) When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world (Despair Quotes) I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times (Despair Quotes) It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her (Despair Quotes) You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair (Despair Quotes) I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it (Despair Quotes) We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair (Despair Quotes) Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair (Despair Quotes) To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on (Despair Quotes) Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy (Despair Quotes) It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps (Despair Quotes) Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace (Despair Quotes)

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