“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.” WantBeautifulCertainDiesStarsSpaceSunSkyMiddleColorPureDespairMusic IsDistanceNotesStrikesFrankSublimeAngleSpace BetweenRaindropsOthernessPrisms Author:Donna Tartt
“It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.” MenDiesDespairTeethNurseAntagonismFollow Up Author:Alfred the Great
“The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.” MenDiesEconomyDangerHe ManCircumstancesDespairLive ByItalianItalian Proverb Author:Joseph Addison
“Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.” DiesTreeDespairTheeCypressesCypress Trees Author:Robert Herrick
“If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.” IfsMenMayEndsPainHumanityDiesHellCryMonthsEasierDespairDiedFinalsCancerCelebrateLaughedEasier Times Book:Full House Source: Full House
“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.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensFactsDreamHandsActionAmericaFacesLyingDesireDiesPassionNationsVoiceBornDestinyDemocracyColdDespairMassIdealsDepthDrivenBitterBurningFrustrationApathyCynicismAmerican DreamLackingParticipationHopelessnessParalysisForsakenBurning Passion Author:Saul Alinsky
“Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?” IfsLoveMayCareDiesCausesDespairFairsCheeksPaleRosyMead Book:The poetry of George Wither Source: The poetry of George Wither
“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.” WayEndsSelfDiesAcceptingDespairAnxietyRageSurrenderEnormousEcstasySubmitAnother WayWill PowerFreedom And Happiness Author:Ellen Willis
“He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.” DiesDespairDifficultyNobleConquerValor Author:Pierre Corneille
“The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsPersonsAbleSpiritualDiesReligiousChristianityOpinionDespairEndureFolksRelatedIsolationTestamentNew TestamentAssemblyHerdsCongregation Author:Soren Kierkegaard