Dreams Quote by Georges Batailles

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's…

— Georges Bataille

“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,…

— Joseph Conrad

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic…

— Honore de Balzac

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

— Vladimir Lenin

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

— Dalai Lama

“When dreams are turned away, death becomes the ultimate salvation….There are only two extremes in human madness: the instant when you become aware of…

— Yasmina Khadra

“When we are tempted to give in to despair, to give up to self-indulgence or apathy, we have a place of refuge that will…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness,…

— Edward T. Hall

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows…

— Pierre Charron

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

— Charlie Chaplin

“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who, surviving its…

— Thomas Paine