Home / Quotes / Quote by J.D. Crighton

Quote by J.D. Crighton

“Geyer and Gary looked at each other and wearily sat down. All the weeks of travel in the hottest months of the year investigating lead after lead, alternating between faith, hope, discouragement, and despair.”

Book:Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

Work

Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

J.D. Crighton

Browse famous quotes and profile details for J.D. Crighton. more

“And that's all. That's it. The courage, the recklessness, call it what you will, is the flash, the instant of sublimation; then flick! the old darkness again. That's why. It's too strong for steady diet. And if it were a steady diet, it would not be a flash, a glare. And so, being momentary, it can be preserved and prolonged only on paper: a picture, a few written words that any match, a minute and harmless flame that any child can engender, can obliterate in an instant. A one-inch sliver of sulphur-tipped wood is longer than memory or grief; a flame no larger than a sixpence is fiercer than courage or despair.”

Grief Courage Despair Memory

Author:William Faulkner

“Despair NOT! Refuse to be gloomy or negative. Don't allow challenges and situations to rob your joy. Do not allow anything or anyone to take YOUR PEACE AWAY!”

Life Inspirational Motivational Joy Hope Peace Despair Negativity Challenge Situations

Author:Patricia Dsouza

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.”

Pain Despair Instinct Addiction Alienation Compulsion Disconnection The Human Condition

Book:Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

Source: Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”

Hope Dreams Despair Sandman

Book:The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake

Source: The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake

“Life's big questions are big in the sense that they are momentuous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the sense of being unanswerable. It is only that the answers are generally unpalatable. There is no great mystery, but there is plenty of horror.”

Life Despair Ethics And Moral Philosophy

Book:The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Source: The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard”

Common Despair Being Yourself Hygge

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do, the where-are-you-from, the what-neighborhood, the what-college, the despair of trying to explain oneself.”

Despair Tedious Monotonous Small Talk Catherine Lacey The Answers Explaining Yourself

Book:The Answers

Source: The Answers

“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come...”

Despair Resignation Absurdism French Literature Absurdist

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“when you face disappointments and trials in life, your response dictates the character that will be created in you as a result.”

Inspirational Quotes Motivational Quotes Business Quotes Decision Making Leadership Quotes Leadership Development Business Advice Behavioral Psychology Cognitive Psychology Decisions In Life

Book:The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making

Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making

“It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it may be that he thinks it would have been infinitely preferable to maintain silence rather than have anyone privy to his secret. There are examples of introverts who are brought to despair precisely because they have acquired a confidant.”

Despair Introversion

Book:The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Quote by J.D. Crighton

Work

Author

You May Also Like