D Quotes
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“Despair leads to distress.”
“Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.”
“Despair makes priests and friars.”
“Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.”
“Despair makes victims sometimes victors.”
“Despair manifests in multiple ways--
illness, exhaustion, indulgence, malaise--
some days I just have to let it be,
whatever form it takes.
We have to do what we can, all we can,
to turn the tides.
But ... but ...
Sometimes despair overwhelms
and what we need is to do, to create, to make
hope.”
“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!”
“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”
Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory
“Despair often breeds disease.”
“Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“Despair ruins some, presumption many.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.”
“Despair, self-doubt, and desire cripple human beings.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.”
“Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.”
Source: Table-talk
“despair
sometimes
hope leads us on
teases us with
its shiny baubles
its stunning horizons
it can carry us over
the roiling turmoil
the raging storm
then as easily
with its cornucopia of lies
drop us into the waves
to flounder against its loss”
“Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.”
Source: Tehanu: Book Four
“Despair swallows up cowardice.”
“Despair the twin-born of devotion.”
Source: Poems and Ballads
“Despair, the worst of all the deadly sins, since it is denial of the self, of the god-in-self, since it is so seductive, like the snow-death, so warm. Ah, who would tear himself to pieces when he might lie down in such arms, in comfort, and cease. Bless you, my despair, my dear and loving despair. So painlessly you take my pain away. Oh Father, by no means dash the cup from my lips -”
Source: The Book of the Damned
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.”
Source: Chalice
“Despair was never stronger than the thought of them. He could not betray them by giving up.”
Source: Son of the Dawn
“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“Despair wishes their hope diminishes.”
“Despair young and never look back.”
“Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.”
Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.”
Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes”
“Despairing of an aim, salvation or an ideal, we invent for ourselves the easiest solution: happiness.
Here again we begin with utopia - the ideal of happiness - and end in achieved happiness, the highest stage of happiness. The same abreaction to integral happiness as to integral
reality or freedom: these are all unbearable.
In the end, it is the opposite form of misfortune, the victim ideology, that triumphs.
Being incapable of accepting thought (the idea that the world thinks us, the intelligence of evil), we invent the easiest solution, the technical solution: Artificial Intelligence.
The highest stage of intelligence: integral knowledge.
This time the rejection will arise perhaps from a resistance on the part of things themselves to their digital transparency or from a failure of the system in the form of a major accident.
Against all the sovereign hypotheses are ranged the easiest solutions.
And all the easiest solutions lead to catastrophe.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Despatch is the soul of business.”
“Despedida tem cheiro de amizade cinzenta.”
Source: Os da Minha Rua
“Despedíos del error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas y las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.”
Source: Libro del desasosiego (Biblioteca Formentor)
“Despenco em sono leve sobre a penumbra macia e aveludada, a qual vagarosamente me digere.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Desperate affairs require desperate measures.”
“Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.”
“Desperate and dammed persons share an affinity for flirting with danger; an infectious case of erotic morbidity fetters them to self-destruction.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Desperate courage makes One a majority.”
“Desperate for help, living his life now as a hideous dream, he had told nobody.”
Source: Henry and Cato
“Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.”
“Desperate ills need desperate remedies.”
Source: Murderers abroad: five complete novels
“Desperate is not a sexual preference.”
“Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.”
Source: Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic
“Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.”
“Desperate people are dangerous people.”
Source: Breaking Tecumseh's Curse: The Real-life Adventures of the U.S. Secret Service Agent Who Tried to Change Tomorrow
“Desperate people are the most dangerous.”
Source: DUNE