Despite Quotes

1296 Despite quotes by 1034 unique authors

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out… — Robert Graves
Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended… — Julia Glass
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our… — Cecelia Ahern
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio… — Aravind Adiga
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,… — J M Coetzee
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds… — Markus Zusak
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different… — Hunter S. Thompson
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in… — Annie Dillard
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… — Tom Robbins
I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself… — Christopher Barzak
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her… — Gaston Leroux
the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and… — Pope Benedict XVI
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love. — Albert Camus
He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do… — Karen Chance
You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the… — Elliot Perlman
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we… — Sylvia Plath
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the… — Zadie Smith
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.… — Isaac Asimov
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy… — Ryan Adams
I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads! — Gail Carriger
It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into… — Richelle Mead

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