Despair Quotes - Page 24

• I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Thinking, Simply Happy, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.

  Olof Arnalds

  Artist, Years, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Long, Empowering

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.

  Chris Hedges

  Struggle, Dark, Winning

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Space, People

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• But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  New York, Years, Movement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Crazy, People, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

  Tariq Ali

  Weakness, Terrorism, Emanate

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

  Lori Lansens

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in America is an anti-abortion, anti-homosexual vote. I consider that to be anti-female and anti-gay, and I don't want to be identified with a God who is anti-anything.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Gay, America

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pain, Gay, Thinking

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mysterious, Stills

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Despair is part of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.

  Andre Vltchek

  Military, Media, Wings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

  Amanda Palmer

  Math, Simple, Fundamentals

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Memories, Sadness, Intelligent

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• I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Tired, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Trying, World

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

  John Lewis

  Sea, Progress, Pushing

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

  David Whyte

  Want, Abandoned, Interest

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

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• If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Wise, Pain, War

  "Overcoming Separation Theology" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

  Tim Kaine

  Daughter, Brother, Grief

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• Despair is a natural emotion.

  Tim Kaine

  Emotion, Natural

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Lying, Blood, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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