Despite Quotes

1296 Despite quotes by 1034 unique authors

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as… — Carl Sagan
It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it… — Nancy Pearl
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,… — Dave Eggers
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like… — Kevin Brockmeier
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan
Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that… — Stephen Chbosky
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. — Anne Fadiman
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman… — Camille Paglia
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. — Margaret Atwood
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite… — Nicholas Sparks
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened… — Nicholas Sparks
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. — Etty Hillesum
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds… — Terry Pratchett
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I… — Charles Bukowski
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing… — Gary L. Blackwood
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. — Cornelia Funke

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