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despairing
«If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
despairing, imaginable, state of affairs
«Not so, not so, no load of woeNeed bring despairing frown;For while we bear it, we can bear,Past that, we lay it down.»
«So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| About:
Beauty,
Music
| Keywords:
cynical, despairing, untrusting, wound
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
adversity, careless, Despaired, despairing, despairs, prescience, prosperity, senseless, suffer, Things to Come, understanding
«If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Sin
| Keywords:
despairing, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, grandeur, hoping, implacable, This Life
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
despairing
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
