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Despairing Quotes (page 19)

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance... Paul Hawken
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair. Muhammad Yunus
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. Michael Jackson
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as..."
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.(Of Sam) J. R. R. Tolkien
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair. Dave Barry
Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight Pat Conroy
Alain de Botton quote: "We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are..."
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness... Alain de Botton
Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. "I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped. Larry McMurtry
I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn’t enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn’t, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else’s opinion. Dick Francis
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! J. R. R. Tolkien
At the first turning of the second stair. I turned and saw below. The same shape twisted on the banister. Under the vapour in the fetid air. Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears. The deceitful face of hope and of despair T. S. Eliot
Giacomo Casanova quote: "When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into..."
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. Giacomo Casanova
If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. Ursula K. Le Guin
Charles Bukowski quote: "she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair,..."
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty Charles Bukowski
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is nave and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. H. L. Mencken

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