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“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.”

Thinking Should Art Made Facts Seems Pleasure Despair Art Is Contradiction Always Believe

Author:David Hockney

“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.”

Kind Made Purpose Tears Becoming Sorrow Despair Laughter Madness Surprise Breathe Hinder Mirth

Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

Trying Has Beens Made Moments Might Purpose Hours Half Consciousness Activity Despair Filled Demon Might Have Been Energetic Being Me Sap

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Most of the heartache, pain, and suffering we would not choose today. But we did choose. We chose when we could see the complete plan. We chose when we had a clear vision of the Savior's rescue of us. And if our faith and understanding were as clear today as it was when we first made that choice, I believe we would choose again.”

“Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.”

Men Feels Made Individual Numbers Despair Weak Atrocities Strength In Numbers

Author:Benito Mussolini

“In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.”

“Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.”

Men Made Said Blood Crime He Man Despair Asking Responsible Bones Criminals Flesh Commit Innocent Ran Consent Robbing

Book:The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

“Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.”

Doe Made Light Darkness Despair Useless Idle

Author:Jewel

“When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.”

Ifs Thinking Made Facts Pain Remember Term Hours Fine Gay Despair Lays Misery Unhappy Made It Adolescence Desolate

Author:Andrew Solomon

“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.”

Made Lost Progress Sea Despair Pushing Pulling Gave Up

Author:John Lewis

“Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.”

Life Mean Made Reality Despair Salvation Pupils

Book:The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories

Source: The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories

“Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.”

Thinking Men World Needs Made Important Book Helping Laughing Despair Goodness Spread Lust Manage Around The World Triumph Temporary Laughed Abyss Showbiz Love Lust

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

Made Easy Interest Situation Seeing Mankind Easier Despair Tasks Difficulty Moved Genuine Accomplished Embarrassing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”

Mean Made Able Beautiful Faces Natural Despair Noble

Book:La Fanfarlo

Source: La Fanfarlo

“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.”

Made Night Stars Realizing Dark Poverty Air Wind Limits Despair Glory And Love South Burden Warm Streams Melody Sail Torment Unreal Enchanted Swelling Colourful

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.”

People Made Memories Struggle Air Despair Ambition Conscious Evening Hated Passages Sober Greedy Glamour Faded Ephemeral Intoxication Incessant Indescribable Gloss Kindliness

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”

Men World Life Should Made Ideas Reason Done Feelings Care Young Evil Despair Normal Young Man Bombs Contemplating Lots Of Money Vicious Dropping Brutality Perfectly Normal Callousness

Author:John Fowles

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.”

May Persons Made Whole Moments Decision Balance Victory Despair Luck Whole Life Life And Death That Moment Hope And Despair Decisions Made Happenstance

Book:Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

“I am not made for despair”

Book:Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori

Source: Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori

“His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!”

Men Made Husband Despair Fairs Fierce Handsome Mustache Handsome Men

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything”

Made Lost Felt Limits Despair Capable Terror Miserable Daring Terrified Persuasion

Book:The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau

“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream”

Source: Visions of Cody

“Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.”

Thinking Made Important Sometimes Moments Remember Joy Fall Three Alive Week Sky Minutes Color Despair Illusion Rainbow Vivid Spectacular Hail Azaleas

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”

Heart Made Home Strong Moral Teacher Taught Solitude Despair Letters Shame Woods Intellect Desert Indian Guidance Regions Wilderness Passports Scarlet

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.”

Ifs Way Made Stills Today Despair Overcoming Praise Adversity Desert Faithful Midst Wilderness Trends Ancestor Disturbing Pioneers Deserving Keep The Faith Lds

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.”

People Ifs Humans Made Universe Left Stars Term Rooms Existence Tree Planets Flower Moon Despair Wide God Love Grass Gates Swings God's Love Human Love Alone In Love

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”

Made Stills Sometimes Choices Decision Despair Painful Alternatives Relief Wrestling Forks Making Decisions Tainted

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“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.”

Mean Doe Made Results Goes On Easier Despair Adults Ugly Made It Spite Usual Ambiguity Annihilation Hardened

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.”

People Made Suffering Opportunity Lost Poverty Millions Promise Despair Consequence Profound Illness Lost Opportunity

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.”

World Mind Made War Feelings Peace Views Moral Conditions Despair Proof Favors Mistaken Improving Approved Abolition Tolerable Supposing

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”

Ifs Littles Made Self Play Hands Next Roles Demand Despair Perception Weakness Resources Blind Meetings Notion Defeat Determined Despise Doomed Urgency

Author:Joan Didion

“Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.”

Men Should Made Soul Today Christian Faith House Sin Tears Despair Good Things Cease Your Soul Repentance Confession Day To Day Doing Good Being Me Console Old You Repairing

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”

Made Blessing Despair Suicide Buddhist Boredom Cynical Thirst Avarice Drunkards Ennui

Author:Gautama Buddha

“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.”

Source: The Irrational Season

“This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.”

Ifs Writing Made Happens Running Games Gone Successful Despair Letters Blind Quitting Made It Rejection Starting Over Alleys Stamina Rejection Letters

Author:Tim Maleeny

“Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.”

Humans Persons Made Pain Faces Crime Despair Murder Betrayal Made It Anguish Without Hope

Book:Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)

Source: Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)

“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.”

Men Made Ideas Self Film Born Five Despair Ambition Survival Accounts Frustration Cents Ninety Bank Accounts Fattening

Author:Samuel Fuller

“If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these I won't be made useless I won't be idle with despair I will gather myself around my faith For light does the darkness most fear My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken”

Ifs Knows World Love Doe Made Helping Hands Light Would Be Causes My Own Darkness Worry One Thing Broken Despair Useless Just One If I Could Idle Times Like These

Author:Jewel

“In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.”

Made Soul Character Suffering Despair Bitterness Valleys

Book:Lament for a Son

Source: Lament for a Son

“But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.”

Made Found Felt Months Despair Video Get Better Indescribable It Gets Better

Author:Zachary Quinto

“For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old”

Source: Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels

“Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”

People World Looks Made Ideas Real Bigs Humanity Opportunity Left Wealth Millions Awareness Despair Discovery Economics Awful New Ideas Exposure Harvard Disparity

Author:Bill Gates

“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.”

Source: The diary of a young girl