Despaired Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general…
— David C. Cassidy
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Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be…
— Joseph Warren
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was…
— Ian Fleming
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
— George Eliot
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Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
— George Eliot
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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
— John Steinbeck
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Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat…
— Tessa Dare
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Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
— Robert Browning
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It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when…
— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success…
— Robinson Jeffers
Who Wrote These Despaired Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Despaired Quotes as follows: