#despair

What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by the light of his own Christian viewpoint; he also finds friendship deficient when judged from the perspective of its own self-proclaimed ethical foundations. Thus, Kierkegaard concludes that the reciprocity involved in friendship actually betrays its essential selfishness. ↗

— Graham Smith

#friendship #kiekegaard #responsibility #friendship

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. ↗

— Graham Greene

#sex #theology #love

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#desperation #escape #las-vegas #los-angeles #nevada

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#best #despair #discoverers #domesticated #happily

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ↗

— Walker Percy

#aware #become #despair #his #life

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #hope #i #myself

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. ↗

— Terry Southern

#degree #despair #i #i think #more

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#between #despair #god #great #his

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#despair #even #flower #happiness #joy

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#despair #hope #leadership