Books Quote by Jose Bergamin Download Open image “The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.” — Jose Bergamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Born Despair Disillusionment Novel Poetry
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
