"The despairing soul is a rebel." — Joyce Carol Oates
"The despairing soul is a rebel."
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Joyce Carol Oates
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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More Despairing Quotes
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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we…
— Nellie Bly
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state…
— Andre Breton
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in…
— Albert Camus
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There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money…
— Claude Chabrol
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
— Henri Nouwen
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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of…
— Saint Augustine
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Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking…
— Lynette Fromme
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore,…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have…
— Halle Berry
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather,…
— Saul Bellow
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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