Despair
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With a global weirding of the weather, there are good reasons for feeling fear and despair, yet we may first grieve today's sorry state and losses and then turn to face the future with sober eyes and determination.
It saved me when I was in the middle of writing "Eat, Pray, Love," and I fell into one of those sort of pits of
despair
that we all fall into when we're working on something and it's not coming and you start to think this is going to be a disaster, the worst book ever written.
The poems in his early collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of
Despair"
were tender and perceptive, illuminating the subtleties of love and enchantment.
Despair
is the state we fall into when our imagination fails.
In the world of "The God of Small Things," “Various kinds of
despair
competed for primacy… personal
despair
could never be desperate enough... personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible public turmoil of a nation.”
Many people, I think, on our planet right now despair, and they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things.
I'm going tell you right now: please don't
despair.
Then I am drowning, in
despair
at having to leave her, this, everything, all, unbearable, awful.
They're powerful stories because they're stories about love, the love that Detroiters have for one another, the love that we have for our community, the love that we have for Mother Earth, but more importantly, these stories are stories on how devastation, despair, decay never ever get the last word in the city of Detroit.
Illustrating the demise of Talos on a vase of the fifth century BCE, one painter captured the dying automaton’s
despair
with a tear rolling down his bronze cheek.
If we throw up our hands in despair, it's game over.
Well, why aren't we? Poverty breeds
despair.
In their ramshackle hut on the edge of the woods, a husband and wife were in
despair.
But here's where the parable is so useful, because for weeks after her diagnosis, I felt gripped by despair, locked in the story that all of this was tragic.
It helps him when he is overwhelmed with grief and
despair.
Hope and
despair
are neck and neck.
And I believe we won't overcome the
despair
that authoritarian politicians prey upon if our systems stay rigged.
Death and
despair
surrounded Joshua and our entire communities.
How do you not
despair
when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?
How do you not get overwhelmed by the
despair
and the misery of it all?
But may I? (Laughter) (Applause) I feel curiosity, and I feel wonder, but at times I have also felt
despair.
But before we consign ourselves to despair, maybe we should just go back and say, "Did we get this right?
If the culture of the time led people to do these things, it appears to me that it was all a journey of no discovery, only
despair.
This Macbeth seems to be a looser with a brain injury not a valiant warrior, brave and ambitious that wants power so much he is prepared to to kill and who gets caught up in a net of fears and
despair.
Father Figure plies Young Hotshot with money and hookers and power, but we all know that this decadent state of affairs is on a collision course with dissolution and
despair
. . .
Marlene Dietrich is magnificent as Concha Perez, the temptress who drives all men to
despair
in Josef Von Sternberg's "The Devil is a Woman".
I truly
despair
for womankind when they discuss this joke of a programme as if it's intellectually engaging and promotes female liberation and independence.
The whole plot is so bad that it could drive Mother Theresa to despair!!!
To see a world of
despair
when we are all so comfortable in our own lives and even complaining about what we have not got when it is so trivial compared to someone else.
And life (and death) goes on, despite the bright flame of the husband's love and the deep
despair
and guilt woven into so many lives.
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