As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.” — Eleanor Cameron Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. Here's what's strange. The main thing I feel… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image