Despair Quote by Suzanne Massie Download Open image “Russians understand the rhythm of despair.” — Suzanne Massie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despair Rhythm Russia
But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences… — Owen Matthews Copy Share Image
“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Hope, belief, and despair are not simply moods. They change our physical performance. They alter how quickly we react, how hard we fight, how… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever… — Melvyn Douglas Copy Share Image
“Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that there is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“As we walk out to the street my friend points out a sign on the other side of the road, which instructs people to… — Greg Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
“All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.” — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind. — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare. — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems. — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way; it is just a darkness and you can still walk… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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