Quotes tagged ‘Despair’

“Why go on? Why keep trying?”

— James Gray, Ethan Gross, Roy McBride, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

“In just moments, 12 players will be plucked from their lives, stripped of everything, and will travel through time. Half to a futuristic utopia where unimaginable comfort is just a click away. The other to the past—a primeval wilderness of darkness and despair.”

— Luke Tipple, imdb.com

“Father Karras: Why her? Why this girl? Father Merrin: I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.”

— William Peter Blatty, Father Karras, Jason Miller, imdb.com

“There are a lot of things I can take, and some things I can't. But what I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.”

— M. Night Shyamalan, Merrill Hess, Joaquin Phoenix, imdb.com

“I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden and a movie theater. JFK is just salmonella and despair.”

— Pete Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Rachel Chu, Constance Wu, imdb.com

“I would do anything to be able to wrap my arms around you and hug every stitching of your pain away. You just told me you don’t know if you're supposed to be here. Goodness, it was like a knife itched those words on my chest. It left scars that forced me to put one finger in front of the other and w…”

— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.com

“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“A man with nothing that he loves…is a man who cannot be bargained. A man that cannot be betrayed. A man who answers to no one… but himself.”

— Megan Mostyn-Brown, Edward Nygma / The Riddler, Cory Michael Smith, imdb.com

“Maybe it's all gonna turn out all right. And I know that it's not, but I have to believe that it is.”

— Julien Baker, open.spotify.com

“*Gasp* I dropped my meatball in the pool!”

— Chris McKenna, Keith Heisler, Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson, Matt McKenna, Roger The Alien, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“Oh, I've just been on a perilous journey down the treacherous carcass-strewn avenue of despair.”

— John Kricfalusi, imdb.com

“In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so…”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“No future, however, can be built on despair, distrust, hatred, and envy.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. Where reason is indignant, where our natu…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community....Let him who is not in community beware of being alone....Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perish…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Every friendship travels at some time through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and ne…”

— John O'Donohue, amazon.com

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, o…”

— Martin Niemoller, spartacus-educational.com

“It's my theory that when you make a decision to give up that the cells in your body start to die. Can you feel it? Your whole body beginning to decay. It makes it easier to want to kill yourself.”

— Breen Frazier, Diane Turner, Michelle Trachtenberg, imdb.com