#despair

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#came #comrades #despairing #farewell #freedom

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#never #work #you

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. ↗

— Avi Arad

#clean #clean up #despair #get #i

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#despair #every #god #merciful #much

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#challenge #days #despair #feel #future

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#despair #enemy #oh #rage

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#cake #despair #difference #entitled #equally

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions. ↗

— King Hussein I

#address #also #create #despair #desperately

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#despair #letting-go #life #moving-on #sadness

February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps... Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#despair #emotion #friendship #mistake #useless