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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#despair #escape #faith #into #narrow

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#contains #destructive #envy #feeling #guise

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#birth #born #desperate #every #hope

Despair gives courage to a coward. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#coward #despair #gives

The artist in me cries out for design. ↗

— Robert Frost

#artist #cries #me #out

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#clothes #daughter #day #dress #eldest

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#away #because #concentrated #english #films

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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