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“Despair is something horribly simple.”
“Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortunes slings and arrows.”
“education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation”
“Ill live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.”
“There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit a...”
“Alan McCluskeyDespair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.”
“But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning ...”
“If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.”
“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness”
“Yes, one whose faith is continually stimulated by the upward look gives no ground to the attempted encroachment of despair. No matter how great the trouble or how dark the outlook, a quick lifting ...”
“The pages aren't numbered, so I don't know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it's in sequence but these days I'm not really looking for continuity.All I'm after is something that makes...”
“What, whom we put our hope in determines our stability!" EL”
“Visions and voices and fear and despair cannot be captured by CT scan or measured in the amplitude of EKG waves. Try as we might, we simply cannot predict which of our patients will kill themselves...”
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you'...”
“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.”
“Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote to him. Uncle Saleh was across the world. A few years back, getting...”
“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.”
“Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.”
“...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in the despair. True, he has used something within the category ...”
“No loss is big enough to lose hope for tommorrow.”
