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I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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