#despair

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#closer #despair #dying #feeling #felt

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ↗

— Robert Graves

#despair #exceeds #far #girl #good

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

#despair #fears #fell #human #human soul

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#been #despair #end #fall #history

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galadriel #the-fellowship-of-the-ring #the-lord-of-the-ring #beauty

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cultural #despair #emerge #feeling #great

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

#all things #despair #diligence #diligently #labor

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#declare #deepest #degrees #despair #disappear