Despair Quote by Franz Kafka

“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. “Why”

— Walter Isaacson

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“Fortunately he had nothing resembling a plan, so he didn't have to worry about things not working out according to it. He simply let…

— L.J. Davis

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

“He accepted situations at hand as they were, not as he wanted them to be. So he adjusted what he could adjust and what…

— S.G. Redling

“I could be the faultless victim of a freak accident and be knocked from the game while still on the ascendant. Becoming the object…

— David Foster Wallace

“He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty…

— Wallace Stegner

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“I think the man who designed this should have committed suicide. A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never…

— Ayn Rand

“It must be that sometimes our assertions about higher order and hidden design are fables we’ve made up to help us ignore our own…

— Lewis Hyde

“He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.”

— Sheryl Sandberg