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“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.”

Looks Persons Color Despair Spring Depth Winter Neglected Color And Life

Book:A Matter of Class

Source: A Matter of Class

“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.”

Men Soul Care Passion Sorrow Despair Empty Depth Entertainment Boredom Dependent Resentment Idleness Gloom Insufficient Chagrin

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.”

Knows Want Sides Dark Despair Depth Dark Side Interviewers

Author:Clare Balding

“[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.”

Kind Reason Lying Turns Higher Despair Mass Evidence Miracle Depth Bread

Book:The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Source: The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.”

Heart Young Lovers Prove Despair Depth Necks Costumes Gowns Persuasive Lurking Wrenches

Author:Honore de Balzac

“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.”

Men Feels Heart Passion Study Sadness Despair Weakness Depth Arise Emptiness Nothingness Dependence Gloom Weariness Diversion Vexation Insufferable Insufficiency

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.”

Reason Life Is Knowledge Cutting Despair Depth Meaningless Intuitive Deprived Technical Knowledge

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.”

Wells Pride Despair Depth Homelessness

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.”

Character Realizing Ability Depends Despair Depth Investing Height Guts This Too Shall Pass

Book:Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor

Source: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor

“You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.”

“Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Happens Can Do Despair No Matter What Depth You Can Do It Claws Sports Psychology

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

World Kind Soul Body Order Sin Vision Needed Despair Perfection Property Strive Depth Glad Lust Compare Imaginary Nausea

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”

Hands Poet Horror Mountain Despair Depth Solve Architecture Immortal Jungle Heartbeat Sunbeams

Author:e. e. cummings

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Eye Fields Tears Despair Depth Autumn Idle Autumn Days

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”

Knows Life May Teach Revolution One Day Despair Depth Revenge Circles Height Sober Solemn Mourn November Desolation

Author:William Peter Blatty

“You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Said I Can Feelings Imagine Serious Despair Eating Depth Uncomfortable Shortcomings

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?”

Source: Gitanjali

“We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)”

“Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.”

“For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.”

Heart Self Spirit Names Poor Poverty Darkness Despair Destruction Mercy Depth Possession Loving God Plunge Self Destruction Unfathomable Alone Time Alone With God Prized Possessions

Author:Brennan Manning

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”

Children Order Grace Sorrow Despair Depression Suicide Errors Depth Vices Stupidity Disillusionment Nausea

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

““You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?””

Despair Green Depth Green Gables

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“There are those among you who, although young, have already suffered a full measure of grief and sorrow. My heart is filled with compassion and love for you. How dear you are to the Church. How beloved you are of your Heavenly Father. Though it may seem that you are alone, angels attend you. Though you may feel that no one can understand the depth of your despair, our Savior, Jesus Christ, understands. He suffered more than we can possibly imagine, and He did it for us; He did it for you. You are not alone.”

“On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.”

World Despair Depth Top Of The World

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.”

People Inspirational Needs Problem Together Success Strength Despair Dignity Depth Solve Working Together New Year Organize Personal Dignity Dignity Of Work Dignity And Strength

Author:Cesar Chavez

“The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.”

Despair Claims Depth Height Capability

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.”

Feels May Spiritual Jesus Christ Despair Jesus Christ Depth Savior Savior Jesus

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.”

Should Motivational Challenges Teacher Honest Despair Depth Valuable Height Accomplishment Undertaker

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.”

Ifs Humans May Matter Helping Situation Hell Despair No Matter What Depth Temptation Rejects Thread Spiders

Author:Yana Toboso

“It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.”

Source: The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

“Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.”

Knows Feels May Joy Emotion Regret Circumstances Despair Independent Filled Depth Creator Reactions Height Desperate Centerpieces

Author:Robert Fritz

“It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.”

Personality Despair Losing Crisis Depth Rescue Complacency Millennials

Author:Stanley Hoffmann

“When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.”

May Light Moving Jesus Christ Sin Space Darkness Sea Ready Sorrow Pure Despair Jesus Christ And Love Eternity Down And Depth Time And Space Life And Love Pure Love

Author:John H. Groberg

“Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.”

Men Heart Saws Dying Creatures Despair Logic Depth Mortals Abstract Accustomed

Book:The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition

“I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.”

I Can Despair Depth

Author:Anne Shirley

“The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.”

“I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.”

Light Found Given Voice Love Is Silence Compassion Poverty Violence Listening Despair Racism Depth Wounds Heal Buried Bullets Hopelessness Gifts Of Life

Author:Janice Mirikitani

“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.”

Feels Moments Light Grows Rich Stage Goes On Despair Perception Sacred Depth Surface Supreme This Life Crush Lightning Gentleness Summit Monotonous Life Goes On Enigma

Author:May Sarton

“Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.”

Ifs Thinking World May Long Soul States Would Be Joy Turns Strong Force Taken Divine Sorrow Despair Normal Capacity Depth Chosen Fallen Yield Harvest Fallen World

Author:Lettie Cowman

“Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.”

Despair Depth Reckless Ripple Gaiety

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin