Quotes About Despair

The Witch's knife like nails drummed the crystal of the windowsill, chipping and scoring it. They sounded like death beatles clicking in the walls.'Taste it,' the pearl was telling her, 'That I may know my daughter's heart.' Almost without a thought, Ariel touched a few grains of the Witch's dust to her tongue, and a sharp sensation went through her like a pinprick. It was the bitterest thing she has ever known. it tasted like despair.

I wade through the rush of neglect and loss and sadness pouring through a hole in my hull.

illiterate. Al Qaeda recruiters make use of their poverty, despair, resentment, and eagerness to take revenge against the American troops to recruit them.53 The women are exploited based on three factors: tribal affiliation, financial pressure, and revenge for the loss of family. In traditional Islamic societies,

Foi por isso que fizeram esta guerra, para envenenar o ventre do tempo, para que o presente parisse monstros em lugar de esperança. (...) Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

Houve um tempo em que pensei poder mudar esse mundo. Mas hoje desisti. Aquele é um corpo que está vivo graças à sua própria doença. Vive do crime, se alimenta de imoralidade.

A esperança é a última a morrer. Diz-se. Mas não é verdade. A esperança não morre por si mesma. A esperança é morta. Não é um assassínio espectacular, não sai nos jornais. É um processo lento e silencioso que faz esmorecer os corações, envelhecer os olhos dos meninos e nos ensina a perder crença no futuro.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

Rastafari teachings vigorously advocated self-sufficiency through self-awareness and provided an alternative source of meaning and identity to lives that were frequently mired in hopelessness, alienation, and despair.

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

I was about to say that you were not created for this lovelessness.

I cannot read souls as well as Don Matteo does, but I see that in your past you have suffered from that great wound which afflicts modern man." "Which is. . .?" "The temptation to absolute despair.

You struggle against despair, which is perhaps the greatest temptation of our century. All manner of evil flows from this primeval wound in man, this conviction that he is absolutely alone, this terror that his sufferings are meaningless. Is this not also your fear?

As a Gurs inmate remarked to an American consul: "To you, we are just numbers. To us, you are the god who has the right to open the gates of the promised land or keep shut that door and condemn us to despair.

Oh God, we are near complete despair. How can we possibly change our fate? How can we possibly persuade our society that we deserve to be treated with decency and respect? How can we possibly fight a criminal justice system that has been designed to ensure our defeat? How can we possibly combat the blindness of white men and women who are so deeply invested in their own privilege that they cannot afford to see how much we suffer?

Depressive episodes closed around him like curtains and could hang there for weeks.

Hope is the best form of torture

The other is the despair that arises when people believe the meritocratic promise has already been fulfilled, and they have lost out.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

But if the threat to philosophy and thought in general was radical, could there still be hope for the future? Could one go on after Auschwitz without capitulating wholly to its evil, to its negativity, to its destruction of our categories and principles? For Jews, what could remain of the ideas of salvation and redemption? Did integrity require complete despair?

I hated what this country had become and wanted nothing more than to hold up a mirror so its citizens could see it for what it truly was, not the Land of Opportunity for which our forefathers fought and died, but as the fascist regime that served to funnel the money upward from those most in need into the pockets of those who would see them all starve in the streets, the same men who took away their livelihoods and stranded them in a city rotting beneath their very feet.

We must be bound to one another then," Elric murmured despairingly. "Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then—let it be thus so—and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melinbone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind—produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!